Payments for newborns have reduced poverty elsewhere, but are a novel idea in New York.
More than 53,000 New Yorkers are allegedly facing delays regarding eligibility for benefits.
There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding toll.
New York’s consumer advocacy groups struggle to compete with well-funded utilities and corporations. Lawmakers want to level the playing field.
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.
Hundreds of Child Victims Act cases have been filed against New York schools, some over accused serial offenders that could leave districts with tens of millions of dollars in liability.
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.
The governor promised to fill the chronically understaffed Board of Parole. Nearly half of her nominations have ended in disaster.
From New York City to Buffalo, people are driving a lot more than they did before the pandemic.
Carol Shapiro spent two years trying to reform the state Board of Parole. Little has changed.
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 landmark reform law was meant to overhaul carceral punishment in New York. Getting prisons to follow it has been an uphill battle.
The mayor and governor have long hailed their partnership. Will it survive federal corruption charges?
Nearly half of the state’s child care providers have raised tuition and a third have lost staff, a new report found.
Foreign governments have long courted local officials. Prosecutors are starting to go after them.
A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell.
The indictment has exposed cracks in New York’s widely admired way of helping fund campaigns.
The chair of Assembly Democrats’ campaign committee said he wasn’t aware his organization had sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Bronx.
New rules from the Biden administration require water utilities to replace all lead pipes. That could cost New York $2.5 billion or more, kicking off a fight over who pays.
Here are the five topics we’re watching with the elections less than three weeks away.