Previously unreleased disciplinary files expose officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray the residents they’re supposed to protect. Most are back at work within a month.

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

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.

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.

Previously unreleased disciplinary files expose officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray the residents they’re supposed to protect. Most are back at work within a month.

New York’s incarcerated population has been declining for decades. Why is it so hard for prison closures to keep pace?

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.

Backing primary opponents to progressive Democrats, the new Solidarity PAC resembles a state-level analog to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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.

We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.

While the nonprofit Greater New York Hospital Association lobbied, a lucrative for-profit arm may have run up costs for hospitals.

New York municipalities used to keep the surplus from foreclosed homes sold at auction. Then the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

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

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.

The former budget director’s role may break a law meant to keep ex-state employees from monetizing insider knowledge.

With chapter amendments, governors can make major changes to pending laws. Kathy Hochul uses them more than any executive before her.

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

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

One hundred and fifteen laws that almost were.

As the relationship was coming to light, Heastie returned $5,000 in campaign cash to a labor group from which he’d recused himself.

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.

We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.

Her administration says the fund won’t be harmed. Legal experts question whether she can take it at all.

A Rochester man lost his job while his daughter went through cancer treatment. He’s struggled to communicate with the DOL for months.

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 prison department doesn’t track overdose deaths in its custody. A New York Focus analysis found that the overdose death rate has tripled.

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.

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.

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

As book banning sparks outrage in schools and libraries, the censorship of classics like Native Son persists in New York prisons.

The state wants to phase out fossil fuels. Localities have given over a billion dollars in tax breaks to help keep them around.

The Assembly and Senate want to beef up labor standards and farmland protections for clean energy projects. Developers say that would slow down the energy transition.

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.

A new bill to municipalize Long Island’s utility includes key worker protections that the union had sought.

As real estate developers resist wage guarantees and try to roll back tenants’ rights, a potential budget deal is at an impasse.

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.

Hochul’s proposed Medicaid cuts include $125 million from Health Homes, a program that connects the neediest New Yorkers with medical care, food assistance, and more.

A “ghost entity” linked to Tom Suozzi spent $2 million attacking Kathy Hochul. Then the Board of Elections started an investigation, and it disappeared.

New York legislators have a plan to claim billions in federal funding for health care, driving a fight between industry groups.