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

There is one new climate item that the legislature has aligned on: solar tax credits. The current $5,000 credit for ...

The budget is the state’s plan for how it will spend its money over the next year. It comprises thousands of pages of dense ...

A unique element of the governor’s self-proclaimed “affordability agenda” is her idea of mailing checks of up to $500 ...

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

If you live in Brooklyn, Buffalo, or Long Beach, you might have heard it lately: the clatter of jackhammers as utility ...

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

Former prison agency staff and newly released documents describe a patronage network centered on Commissioner Daniel ...

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

Thousands of parents in New York City are set to lose state-provided child care assistance as soon as April, according to ...

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

Sweeney was once law chair of the Queens Democratic Party, as well as the campaign treasurer for the party chair during the ...