Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who ...

Nick Pinto is a reporter for Hell Gate whose work focuses on police, courts, jails and prisons. He served two tours as a ...

Prison officials have refused to release crucial records on how the agency handles allegations of sexual abuse.

A fight over the future of New York City’s electric grid is heating up. Energy developers are racing to build community-scale ...

Albany’s leaders will hash out these and hundreds of other policies in the next three weeks, as they craft the state budget ...

The Senate and Assembly budget proposals included most of the governor’s ambitious child care plans — but lawmakers have other ideas for Foundation Aid.

Senate and Assembly budget proposals would leave New Yorkers at risk of losing their benefits from federal cuts.

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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.