In a marathon hearing on Wednesday, New York’s top energy and environmental officials hinted that Governor Kathy Hochul could ...

The state’s top education officials head to the hot seat Thursday for a lengthy budget hearing. Here are some questions we’d ...

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The proposal follows a New York Focus and ProPublica investigation that found counties had placed thousands of adults and ...

An investigator with the New York State Police helped get a friend’s traffic tickets reduced “in exchange” for her sexually explicit photos, according to a disciplinary letter from 2017. Another ...

Lawmakers will be grilling top state energy and environmental officials Wednesday in a marathon budget hearing. Here are some of the questions we’d ask.

Nine months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing ...