A new legal challenge takes aim at the New York prison department for locking hundreds of people up in solitary over offenses that should be exempt.
As the governor negotiates the state budget with a legislature that rejected her last chief judge pick, she has selected a sitting liberal to lead the Court of Appeals.
The confluence of rising commissary prices, stagnant wages, and a package ban are making basic items inaccessible.
New York law requires utilities to build out gas infrastructure at customers’ expense. The Senate wants to close the spigot.
Private attorney Caitlin Halligan helped let Chevron off the hook for billions of dollars it owed Ecuadorians over the company’s pollution of the Amazon.
Democratic Assembly leaders refused to entertain the governor’s primary tactic to achieve housing growth and affordability.
We added up the governor and the legislature’s joint priorities and broke down their major divisions. The splits will define the year’s big legislative battles.
The confirmations of Rowan Wilson and Caitlin Halligan may reverse the Court of Appeals’ rightward trend.
“It’s done. It’s not happening,” an Assembly source told New York Focus. Lawmakers are poised to reject measures to boost housing supply and protect renters.
Kathy Hochul and the legislators are closing in on a final state budget. As they settle their differences, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest.
Police will receive photos of defendants with curfews and report alleged violations to District Attorney Melinda Katz.
Andrew Cuomo named Anthony Annucci acting commissioner of New York prisons back in 2013. Now, someone his agency incarcerates is trying to take him out.
Budget legislation released Monday night includes eight pages of bail law markups — significantly more than the governor announced last week. A vote is imminent.
It’s finally here. Late Tuesday night, lawmakers voted on the last of New York’s 10 budget bills. We broke down what’s in them.
New York tied its minimum wage to inflation — but exceptions in Governor Hochul’s plan will likely cancel wage increases in many years.
At Belmont Park’s opening day, local brass celebrated a windfall of state cash. Hardly any fans showed up.
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.
National Fuel customers paid for a website directing New Yorkers to oppose electrification mandates, documents show.
Annucci has been characterized as an institutionalist loyal to the prison system above all else — even, at times, the law.
While the governor awaits guidance from the federal government, thousands of undocumented New Yorkers can’t afford to go to the doctor.