ICE is adding 100 beds at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, but won’t say what its “hard-sided” expansion will look ...

Will New York follow its climate law, once hailed as one of the most ambitious in the world? Or will it be allowed to keep stalling on its legal obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions? That may ...

Watchdogs say Hochul’s budget lets $1.5 billion in contracts bypass comptroller review, raising concerns about waste and ...

Mayor Mamdani is facing pressure to limit an avenue for large building owners to buy credits instead of cutting emissions.

K, districts left millions unspent in 2024–25 — citing staffing, space, enrollment, and reimbursement challenges.

The Knights Inn, profiled by New York Focus and ProPublica last year, had received health and safety complaints for years.

New York’s free air conditioner program ran out of funding before summer, even as extreme heat becomes a deadlier threat.

New York’s biggest health care union, 1199SEIU, wants 200,000 home health aides to join up. Many say they aren't convinced.

Public Partnerships LLC has agreed to pay $162 million to settle a class-action wage-theft lawsuit brought on behalf of ...

When it’s time for Leroy Burton to attend the “therapeutic” classroom time offered to his unit at Upstate Correctional Facility, a state prison at the northern tip of New York, he puts his hands ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. An environmental bill that on paper had enough support to pass the ...

New York has become one of the slowest states in the country to pay unemployment benefits. Only six states have been slower to start sending unemployment checks this year, according to federal Labor ...