Brandon Stradford lasted two months on New York state’s Board of Parole. He continued collecting a paycheck for another seven.

A secret group of Senate Democrats helped decide the fate of nearly 650 bills over the last month. Just don’t ask any questions.

Great Meadow and Sullivan prisons are slated to shut down in November. The state could close up to three more over the next year.

In New York, unemployment recipients can be found guilty of fraud even if they thought their information was true. The state demands repayment at the highest rate in the country.

As the state’s plans to get New Yorkers out of their cars stall, Governor Hochul is championing a highway expansion in the Hudson Valley.

Brandon Stradford lasted two months on New York state’s Board of Parole. He continued collecting a paycheck for another seven.

The police department’s PR team has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.

Since announcing her plan to put the program on ice, the governor has not appeared in public.

Before Kathy Hochul paused it, the tolling program lost the little labor support it had when the Transport Workers Union withdrew its backing this spring.

Here are the five topics we’re watching with the elections less than three weeks away.

A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.

Rebecca Lamorte was let go by her employer in June, prompting the Assembly Speaker to place an upset call to her boss.

The chair of Assembly Democrats’ campaign committee said he wasn’t aware his organization had sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Bronx.

It’s unclear whether the legislature is taking steps to address its security vulnerabilities.

You haven’t heard of it, and your state senator might not have either. The Working Rules group helps determine the fate of hundreds of bills at the end of each legislative session.

We asked 26 lawmakers who support the congestion pricing pause how they propose to fund transit upgrades. Most shrugged.

After the governor declined to answer questions, a New York Focus reporter was ejected from her event.

The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse.

New immigrants say meager meals from a shelter operator and police harassment are leaving them with few ways to feed themselves.

It’s not clear what the money was used for in a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans ten-to-one.

Payments for newborns have reduced poverty elsewhere, but are a novel idea in New York.

He hopes the settlement will lead to reforms in New York prisons, where three-quarters of trans people say corrections officers have inappropriately touched or sexually assaulted them.

More than 53,000 New Yorkers are allegedly facing delays regarding eligibility for benefits.

The state is blowing past key milestones on the way to its big emissions targets.

State lawmakers are set to introduce a sweeping proposal for a public takeover of Central Hudson, the region’s scandal-plagued gas and electric utility.

The small Catholic university banned Students for Justice in Palestine in 2016. Amid protests and crackdowns, the move has become increasingly popular.

Medicare Advantage plans are spreading across upstate New York, despite a reputation for denying care. In Cortland County, retirees kept it at bay.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.

The recently formed Solidarity PAC has mobilized big finance and real estate to target socialists and the Working Families Party.

Lawsuits had threatened to kill congestion pricing. Now, it might take a lawsuit to save it.

There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding toll.

Asked for records related to top politicians’ use of a Buffalo Bills suite, Empire State Development cited potential interference with a law enforcement investigation.

Pomerantz LLP attorneys have donated to comptroller candidates for decades, highlighting a loophole in rules meant to keep government contractors from spending in city elections.

Nearly half of the state’s child care providers have raised tuition and a third have lost staff, a new report found.

More counties are turning to private corporations to run medical care in jails. The companies have deadly track records.

As the state has backpedaled on congestion pricing, it has made no progress on nearly half of its other transit-related climate goals.

The governor promised to fill the chronically understaffed Board of Parole. Nearly half of her nominations have ended in disaster.

As climate disasters threaten a home insurance crisis, a new state bill aims at the problem’s root.

Foreign governments have long courted local officials. Prosecutors are starting to go after them.

A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.

The Senate will consider Daniel Martuscello III’s bid to run New York’s prison and parole agency. His supporters point to his decades of experience. His opponents say that’s the problem.

New York’s labyrinthine “rate case” process, explained.

After DA Sandra Doorley berated a police officer, Hochul referred her to a commission that is yet to become active — and lacks the authority to issue discipline.

A version of good cause eviction and new hate crimes are in; new taxes on the wealthy and education cuts are out. Here’s where things landed in this year’s budget.

A historic debt relief deal was meant to rescue cabbies from a medallion value crash. But some lenders are insisting drivers pay off loans in full, even if they can’t afford to.

The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.