With nearly 1,500 unfilled jobs, New York City’s Department of Social Services is leaning on mandatory overtime to keep up.
Some of downstate New York’s most used hiking trails are badly eroding. President Trump’s cuts have slashed the crews working to save them.
The murder has led to more tumult than New York’s prison system has seen since the Attica prison uprising over five decades ago.
A health insurer offering shoddy coverage to low-wage workers at taxpayer expense will be replaced next year. But will what comes next be any better?
Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical supplies.
In response to reporting by New York Focus and Gothamist, State Senator Zellnor Myrie has introduced a bill to standardize debt calculations.
New York is ready to collect data on emissions, but is fighting a court order to cut them.
An investigation by New York Focus and Gothamist found lenders are using a disputed method of calculating debts in thousands of foreclosures and taking money from hundreds of former homeowners.
New Yorkers will pay more for wind and solar if Hochul doesn’t sign property tax legislation in the coming days, the industry says.
Federal budget cuts will force hundreds of thousands off New York’s free Essential Plan, with some families facing $10,000 annual premium increases.
Just last month, the state argued in court that it couldn’t halt the all-electric buildings law even if it wanted to. Then it abruptly changed course.
In at least one case, police may have violated a state court ruling prohibiting local law enforcement from conducting civil immigration enforcement.
The ruling allows young immigrants who have suffered abuse and neglect to apply for protections from deportation — at least for now.
The conservative Democrat is sounding more like her progressive colleagues as she tries to protect immigrant constituents from the Trump administration.
A decade after city officials promised to protect Edgemere against floods, residents say the neighborhood remains just as vulnerable.
Federal HEAP funding will not reach New Yorkers until at least November 24, state officials say.
Prison officials are using a novel legal reading to argue that the HALT Solitary Confinement Act doesn’t apply to units where most people are incarcerated.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers could lose their food benefits due to new SNAP work requirements, after the Trump administration phased them in months earlier than expected.
The board overseeing opioid lawsuit settlements is raising the alarm that New York could use the funds, which are meant to expand substance abuse initiatives, to backfill federal cuts.
Working Families Party–backed candidates flipped county legislatures, won big-city mayoralties, and secured an Assembly seat in Elise Stefanik’s backyard.