The rulings shed light on the leanings of Caitlin Halligan, the court’s newest judge and frequent tie-breaker.

While the United States Supreme Court seeks to restrict the government’s ability to regulate, the New York Court of Appeals is broadening it.

At a heated town meeting, a resident warned “pedophiles or criminals” would move into new housing.

With crowds bussed in from New York City, Resorts World Catskills gave a boost to the local economy. What happens when competition moves in downstate?

The rulings shed light on the leanings of Caitlin Halligan, the court’s newest judge and frequent tie-breaker.

For Daniel Martuscello III, New York prisons are a family business.

A raucous emergency meeting featured escalating alarm, bewilderment, a hot mic, dueling accusations of conflicts of interest, and a dramatic vote with two surprise twists.

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

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.

Will putting a price on trash keep the state’s garbage from overflowing?

Israeli settlers have unleashed a wave of violence on Palestinians. With tax-deductible donations, New Yorkers can help equip them to carry it out.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio has faced formal complaints for berating and threatening lawyers in more than a dozen incidents.

Albany empowered its community oversight board. But the police department and the city’s top attorney are stonewalling.

City policies have proven so volatile, even aid workers urged asylum seekers to get out of New York if they can.

A growing local faction is demanding that the IDA be dissolved.

New York Focus revealed routine secret instructions used to guide judges’ decisions. Civil rights lawyers are suing to make them public.

A major wind and solar developer is defecting from industry ranks, arguing the state shouldn’t bail out struggling projects.

Under Roberta Reardon, the agency has recovered less and less of workers’ stolen wages. Meanwhile, staff resign, and replacements lag.

Kathy Hochul proposed an executive order to extend the controversial 421-a tax break. Labor unions shot it down.

New York’s top elected officials showered the Brooklyn party with praise, but is it doing anything to support its candidates?

In California, getting labor on board was essential to addressing the housing crisis. In New York, unions say the governor has barely tried.

In New York’s third-largest city, locals are sick of skyrocketing bills and dirty fuel sources. They’re fighting against long odds for the public to own the grid.

They’re on their way, officials promise. But they’re years late.

Men locked up in the Broome County jail describe an opioid treatment program so shoddy, they risk withdrawal, relapse, and overdose.

The iconic public defense organization is due back in its Brooklyn office Monday. Attorneys, reporting health complications, say they’ve dreaded the return.

Climate watchers say the state can’t meet its renewable energy goals without overriding local opposition.

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 emails to the governor’s office, the Real Estate Board of New York proposed scaled back tenant protections for the state budget.

Mixed evidence was piling up about a signature New York drug policy experiment. Then the state stopped releasing the data.

Prescribed burns are banned in New York’s largest tracts of forest, but some rangers say they need to torch the brush to save the trees.

The rulings shed light on the leanings of Caitlin Halligan, the court’s newest judge and frequent tie-breaker.

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.

How a Hamptons mine, in defiance of New York’s top court, keeps trucking out precious piles of sand.

Counties across the state are blowing past legal deadlines to process SNAP applications, leaving families struggling to eat. The delays may be about to get even worse.

While Hochul considers a bill to pressure state contractors to stop deforestation, the massive food supplier is voicing concerns to her administration.

It was hard enough to get back on Social Security and Medicaid after incarceration. Then Eric Adams slashed reentry services.

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.

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.

The addiction epidemic is getting worse in the Capital Region. Through local zoning laws, residents fight to keep the state’s solutions out of their backyards.

A group of Manhattan Democrats wants to force County Leader Keith Wright to choose between working for the party and working for a lobbying firm.

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.

New York has kept hundreds of people convicted of sex offenses in prison long past their release dates.

In Syracuse, the I-81 viaduct has two groups at war. One wants to tear it down, one wants to leave it up — all in the name of environmental justice.

The assemblymember wants to unseat Nico Minerva, right hand to party boss Keith Wright. The Manhattan Democrats vote on Thursday.

The Sand Land mine is defying multiple orders to cease operations. Politicians are at a loss for how to respond.