The Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate with ICE, is coming for a Tompkins County sheriff who released a man who’d served his sentence.

The state has yet to publish a building code update, promised in December, which should include requirements to phase out fossil fuel appliances in new homes.

New state education rules will cut funding to private schools that can’t provide the same level of education as public schools. The ultra-Orthodox community is fighting back.

With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by.

This isn’t Daniel Martuscello’s first crisis. An investigation reveals how his family weathered one scandal after another on their road to dominating New York’s prison system.

Absent more money from the state, city officials warn that they will hit a funding cliff as early as April.

The state is pushing ahead on all-electric buildings, but a draft update to the building code leaves out other key recommendations from the state’s climate plan.

Former prison agency staff and newly released documents describe a patronage network centered on Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III’s family.

A New York Focus investigation reveals how party officials and politically connected law firms continue to profit from court-appointed roles.

In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.

The secretive units have fallen short on their promise to help wrongfully convicted New Yorkers.

No time to read our big investigation? Here’s a quick summary of everything you need to know.

In many cases, electrifying homes is cheaper, according to one new study.

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

They got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to defend Andrew Cuomo against scandal. Now, they’re helping fund his comeback.

Here’s what the key players in the state budget process are proposing on spending and taxes.

The budget plans set up a fight with Governor Kathy Hochul, who did not propose substantial new investments at all.

Here’s where the Senate, Assembly, and governor stand on funding New York’s green transition.

The biggest winners from the proposed break make well above New York’s median income.

The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison oversight.