Biofuels, hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear: These are some of the technologies that will be on the table as New York weighs how to clean up its grid over the next 17 years.
A new bill would subject the state prison system to independent oversight for sexual assault complaints. The Senate has two weeks to bring it to a floor vote.
Formerly incarcerated “peers” offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.
The governor’s team coordinated meetings between her failed chief judge nominee and Senate Republicans in the days before a key committee vote, emails show.
Some counties pay social services workers so little, the people who administer benefits end up applying themselves.
New York prisons may have effectively banned journalism behind bars.
A new letter from the federal government is energizing a push to expand health insurance for undocumented New Yorkers, but time is running out.
The policy and its sudden reversal will be among Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci’s last acts.
Trade groups are spending big to fight legislation that would restrict single-use packaging and bar their preferred “chemical recycling” technologies.
Democratic lawmakers who rent their homes are far more likely to back tenant protections and new housing supply than those who own, a New York Focus analysis found.
Air-polluting “peaker” plants were a top priority for closure in New York’s green transition. But the state isn’t building clean energy fast enough to replace them on time.
ID.me’s facial recognition tool was supposed to help administer unemployment securely. Users say the tech has barred them from their accounts — and their paychecks.
Massena residents fought the local utility to bring their electric grid under public control. Forty years later, they say it’s still paying off.
Former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s resignation broke a conservative lock on the Court of Appeals.
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.
For Daniel Martuscello III, New York prisons are a family business.
In emails to the governor’s office, the Real Estate Board of New York proposed scaled back tenant protections for the state budget.
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.
Kathy Hochul proposed an executive order to extend the controversial 421-a tax break. Labor unions shot it down.
It was hard enough to get back on Social Security and Medicaid after incarceration. Then Eric Adams slashed reentry services.