Amid a crisis in the state’s prison system, the governor’s and legislature’s budget proposals differ, but largely lack major reforms.
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.
Measures to speed up housing construction and incentivize the repair of affordable housing are gaining momentum in the state budget process, but the state Assembly could be the holdout. In January, ...
The legislature left the climate law untouched for now, but Governor Kathy Hochul could still push for changes in coming weeks.
Two women have died by suicide and a third from cancer at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the reporting found.
When Mariel Posner’s daughter was born three years ago, the New York City pre-K teacher faced a difficult decision: devote nearly half her salary to child care, as she’d done with her older son, or ...
This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility ...
A bill introduced by Assemblymember Anna Kelles aims to harness home batteries, electric vehicles, and other clean tech to ...
When the governor doesn't commute sentences, and the legislature won't act, the carrot-and-stick system of rehabilitation disintegrates.
John J. Lennon is a contributing editor at Esquire and the author of The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the ...
As Small Business Services commissioner, Kenny Minaya will be charged with slashing fees and helping street vendors.
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to unveil property tax reforms, he must weigh a plan he inherited from his predecessor.