They want to beef up the powerful but little-known State Commission of Correction.

Governor Hochul’s budget allocates only a fraction of what the state Board of Regents suggested for three state-owned Indigenous schools.

Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders to step in before it’s too late.

Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.

Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in 10 people stopped by the NYPD last year were Black or Latino.

New York law mandates gender-affirming care — but some hospitals are backing down anyway.

Yeshivas and other nonpublic schools face a looming deadline to prove they offer an education similar to the state’s public schools. A proposed bill would loosen those rules and potentially delay the deadline.

Hochul’s proposed rollbacks are one of the major sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support rested on a faulty anecdote.

Plus: meet with New York Focus reporters in Albany on Monday

Drastic cutbacks coupled with skyrocketing utility costs put seniors and other vulnerable households at greater risk for severe illness and death.

A Queens court’s failure to reveal a romance has sparked accusations of bias.

The detention of three children and their mother shocked the town. It also highlighted just how much the region’s key industries depend on immigrant workers.

“There’s no legal basis for what they’re trying to do,” said one legal expert.

Following New York Focus’s reporting, the state health department is moving to implement a law meant to boost kidney donations.

No lawmaker will take credit for the proposal, but its quiet circulation has sparked fierce debate over state control of religious education.

Here are the key findings from the second installment of our investigation into New York’s conviction integrity units.

The country’s biggest public housing authority is counting on a Chinese company to supply thousands of new energy-saving window heat pumps.

The lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and any other day designated by the commissioner.

In some counties, the waitlist for state-funded mental health treatment programs can exceed two years.

For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they’re feeding it to Donald Trump’s administration.