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We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
While the United States Supreme Court seeks to restrict the government’s ability to regulate, the New York Court of Appeals is broadening it.
New York jails can transfer people with mental illnesses to maximum security prisons, even while they’re legally innocent.
Police training materials link the discredited “excited delirium syndrome” to synthetic marijuana use.
While Heastie privately pledged to avoid meetings with relevant interests, lobbyist Rebecca Lamorte has sought to keep representing them before the Assembly, according to her employer’s attorney.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
The governor and the Senate have aligned on large swathes of the NY HEAT Act. The Assembly might be ready to move on it, too.
New York’s incarcerated population has been declining for decades. Why is it so hard for prison closures to keep pace?
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.
Westchester’s Edgemont community wants to secede from its town — and has scored a legal carveout to let it.
A laundry company wants to turn its factory into 13-story apartment buildings, sparking the latest in a series of fierce zoning fights.
Israeli settlers have unleashed a wave of violence on Palestinians. With tax-deductible donations, New Yorkers can help equip them to carry it out.
New York’s labyrinthine “rate case” process, explained.
Acting Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio has faced formal complaints for berating and threatening lawyers in more than a dozen incidents.
New York municipalities used to keep the surplus from foreclosed homes sold at auction. Then the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
A growing local faction is demanding that the IDA be dissolved.
While the nonprofit Greater New York Hospital Association lobbied, a lucrative for-profit arm may have run up costs for hospitals.
City policies have proven so volatile, even aid workers urged asylum seekers to get out of New York if they can.
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.
With chapter amendments, governors can make major changes to pending laws. Kathy Hochul uses them more than any executive before her.
The former budget director’s role may break a law meant to keep ex-state employees from monetizing insider knowledge.
The rulings shed light on the leanings of Caitlin Halligan, the court’s newest judge and frequent tie-breaker.
As a humanitarian crisis deepens, the state’s $25 million solution is off to a slow start. An in-depth look at the opaque program reveals a raft of logistical hurdles and strict eligibility requirements.
The governor gave a preview of her budget priorities — and we looked out for 2024’s major fights. Follow along to see what we’re watching.
Climate watchers say the state can’t meet its renewable energy goals without overriding local opposition.
One hundred and fifteen laws that almost were.
Her administration says the fund won’t be harmed. Legal experts question whether she can take it at all.
The prison department doesn’t track overdose deaths in its custody. A New York Focus analysis found that the overdose death rate has tripled.
In the New York City teachers union, anger over a plan to privatize retiree health care could send a longshot campaign over the edge.
A Rochester man lost his job while his daughter went through cancer treatment. He’s struggled to communicate with the DOL for months.
While Hochul considers a bill to pressure state contractors to stop deforestation, the massive food supplier is voicing concerns to her administration.
Hudson Valley legislators and advocates are urging the state to reject the double-digit hike, arguing it could illegally stick customers with the bill for the company’s own mess.
As book banning sparks outrage in schools and libraries, the censorship of classics like Native Son persists in New York prisons.
Migrants from Mauritania and Senegal were the most likely to receive eviction notices, but not the most populous groups in shelters, a New York Focus analysis found.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
The state wants to phase out fossil fuels. Localities have given over a billion dollars in tax breaks to help keep them around.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
Even as experts warn of mass ethnic cleansing in Gaza, New York politicians have remained unwavering in their support for Israel since the Hamas attack. They’ve been less vocal about their state’s ties to the occupation of Palestine.
The state’s top court will settle disputes between Rochester, Syracuse, New York City, and their police unions next week in three cases that could reshape police discipline across the state.
The average New Yorker has to travel nearly 10 miles to access methadone, a New York Focus analysis found. Upstate, they have to go even further.
New York has kept hundreds of people convicted of sex offenses in prison long past their release dates.
A new bill to municipalize Long Island’s utility includes key worker protections that the union had sought.
County and municipal economic development agencies play a key role in New York’s wind and solar buildout — but some say it’s not their job.
A “ghost entity” linked to Tom Suozzi spent $2 million attacking Kathy Hochul. Then the Board of Elections started an investigation, and it disappeared.