The mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream: To succeed, climate policies may need to lose the label.
State officials and local activists may be more influential, but the mayor still has a role to play.
Mamdani convinced New York City voters to back his agenda. Now he needs to convince Albany politicians.
After nearly three months behind bars, Carlos Guerra Leon spent an extra night in a Louisiana detention center after officers and local ICE officials said they didn’t get the court’s order.
A child’s donation highlights New York’s City’s straw donor headaches.
The federal government shutdown and new work requirements will throw New York’s food stamps program into chaos.
“We have time to work it out,” Governor Kathy Hochul said.
Many incarcerated New Yorkers say the new normal is endless lock-in.
The rollout follows years of reporting by New York Focus on delays and missed deadlines.
The Trump administration is slapping unaccompanied teenagers with fees for crossing the border.
The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found.
As legislators brace for more ICE arrests, they’re scrambling to figure out how to respond.
Governor Kathy Hochul has yet to indicate whether, or how, New York might plug a funding hole for Empower+, a key energy affordability program.
Gary Lavine says law school deans illegally blocked his nomination to the state’s ethics body.
Hochul appears to have snubbed advocates, providers, and unions, while they try to figure out how serious she is about universal child care.
Governor Hochul vetoed a measure to speed up New York’s public records process, which is among the slowest in the nation. We asked our reporters about their most protracted records requests.
Statewide diversion courts could keep thousands out of jail, but they’ll need more investments in treatment to succeed.
Reporting from New York Focus last year found that the project would save drivers six minutes max, at a cost of $1.3 billion.
Johnson was one of roughly 1,600 women to sue the state under the Adult Survivors Act alleging they were sexually assaulted in state prisons.
Despite mounting evidence that a disbarred attorney stole client funds, Manhattan prosecutors have taken no action.