The Carlyle Group’s effort to buy up rental housing has gotten a $578 million boost from the city and state.

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she sees “no reason” to remove Senator Luis Sepúlveda as judiciary chair.

The governor has asked for cost-cutting plans on pricey housing vouchers and public school programs, sources say.

A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.

A federally mandated child welfare oversight body has called on the Office of Children and Family Services to curtail facilities’ use of isolation and increase transparency.

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

Twenty-two percent of people arrested by ICE in New York state during Trump’s second term have left the country voluntarily — up from less than 1 percent under Biden.

The leader of Reinvent Albany discusses a data center subsidy in Rockland County that flew under the radar for years.

160,000 injured New Yorkers seek workers’ compensation each year — but in recent years, regulators have tilted the scales towards employers and insurers.

Cheikh Fall has spent nearly two decades helping New York immigrants from his home region seek asylum in the United States.

The mayor may delay his executive budget proposal while he awaits billions of dollars in potential Albany aid.

New rules could result in thousands of New Yorkers losing their food benefits this summer.

A super PAC has spent six figures on the race over the last week — more than all the candidates had raised as of last month, combined.

Also: A super PAC targets Democratic Socialists.

Hochul’s counter would limit informal collusion with ICE only in civil matters.

The East Ramapo school board has been overseen by state monitors for years after it slashed millions in public school funds to bankroll private religious education.

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Oswego County sheriff’s deputies held drivers for up to 45 minutes as they waited for immigration agents, potentially breaking the law.

Master agreements let the city wildly exceed spending projections while avoiding typical oversight, the city’s comptroller found.

Two years after Gov. Hochul unveiled her signature literacy policy, advocates say the findings underscore an urgent need for sweeping literacy reform.