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A secret group of Senate Democrats helped decide the fate of nearly 650 bills over the last month. Just don’t ask any questions.
A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell.
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.
A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell.
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.
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.
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.
New immigrants say meager meals from a shelter operator and police harassment are leaving them with few ways to feed themselves.
Payments for newborns have reduced poverty elsewhere, but are a novel idea in New York.
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.
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.
Lawsuits had threatened to kill congestion pricing. Now, it might take a lawsuit to save it.
Asked for records related to top politicians’ use of a Buffalo Bills suite, Empire State Development cited potential interference with a law enforcement investigation.
The recently formed Solidarity PAC has mobilized big finance and real estate to target socialists and the Working Families Party.
There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding toll.
As the state has backpedaled on congestion pricing, it has made no progress on nearly half of its other transit-related climate goals.
More counties are turning to private corporations to run medical care in jails. The companies have deadly track records.
As climate disasters threaten a home insurance crisis, a new state bill aims at the problem’s root.
The governor promised to fill the chronically understaffed Board of Parole. Nearly half of her nominations have ended in disaster.
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.
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.
Nearly half of the state’s child care providers have raised tuition and a third have lost staff, a new report found.
The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.
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.
New York prisons have banned articles from The New York Times, New York magazine, and local newspapers, often citing their potential to incite disobedience.
New York’s labyrinthine “rate case” process, explained.
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.
Advocates charge that New York’s restrictions for sex offense registrants are “vague, expansive, and unnecessary.” On Tuesday, they filed a federal lawsuit to strike them down.
New Yorkers for Local Businesses has spent half a million dollars trying to kill a bill to help workers recover stolen wages. Almost all its backers appear to own McDonald’s franchises.
The retiree says a local rooftop solar company and its partners forged her signature to sign her up for a loan she could not afford.