New York state has oscillated on criminal justice reform in recent years. Under former Governor Andrew Cuomo, it passed ...

Health care union 1199SEIU collaborated with a troubled home care company, Public Partnerships LLC, on messaging, political ...

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role ...

Boards of Visitors are supposed to oversee state-run disability and psychiatric programs. Almost none of them have enough ...

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

New York's shelter allowances haven't been raised in decades, and can't cover the cost of rent anywhere in the state.

An independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.

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

Before 6 am on Monday, Kimberly Crooks, 53, stepped out of her room at the Knights Inn to smoke a cigarette. The Broome County Department of Social Services had placed Crooks and her 12-year-old son ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. Flanked by his top legal and housing officials in a mid-March press ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is staying on the sidelines as a ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. The Republican treasurer and Democratic executive director of a pro ...