As Small Business Services commissioner, Kenny Minaya will be charged with slashing fees and helping street vendors.
When the governor doesn’t commute sentences, and the legislature won’t act, the carrot-and-stick system of rehabilitation disintegrates.
A bill introduced by Assemblymember Anna Kelles aims to harness home batteries, electric vehicles, and other clean tech to meet reliability needs.
Dozens of school districts have opted out of the state’s program. Will the governor’s proposed funding boost be enough to help school districts close the gaps?
The mayor narrowed his big business tax proposal in the hopes of making it easier to pass.
This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility.
Critics say the $10 annual fees state drivers pay to fight car insurance theft and fraud aren’t being used as intended.
Two women have died by suicide and a third from cancer at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the reporting found.
The Senate and Assembly’s budget proposals include many of the mayor’s desired revenue-raisers and give the city a larger cut of state funds.
The legislature left the climate law untouched for now, but Governor Kathy Hochul could still push for changes in coming weeks.
It remains to be seen whether the Assembly will get on board.
The Senate and Assembly are resisting Hochul’s push to relax New York’s emissions targets and are instead pressing for renewed clean energy funding.
The Senate and Assembly budget proposals included most of the governor’s ambitious child care plans — but lawmakers have other ideas for Foundation Aid.
Senate and Assembly budget proposals would leave New Yorkers at risk of losing their benefits from federal cuts.
Amid a crisis in the state’s prison system, the governor’s and legislature’s budget proposals differ, but largely lack major reforms.
The governor and legislature are negotiating over immigration legislation outside of the budget process.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
ConEd says New York’s battery boom could overload the grid. The industry and its allies are pushing back.
Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who had immigration hearings to Uganda.
Prison officials have refused to release crucial records on how the agency handles allegations of sexual abuse.