Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “Tin Cup Day” in Albany was dominated by talk of two big-ticket policy proposals: making buses ...

As housing construction booms in red states, blue states are falling behind. That will likely boost Republicans in federal ...

Civil service exams can slow down government hiring by months or even years. New York City is one of the only areas of the ...

Since then, the prison system has been operating in a consistent state of crisis. Citing a staffing shortage, the system has kept its facilities in varying states of lockdown, with incarcerated people ...

New York environmental regulators have deemed a developer liable for an $18 million Westchester cleanup — but they haven’t ...

David McKay Wilson, former Tax Watch columnist for The Journal News/lohud, is founder of the Hudson Valley Digger , which is ...

State officials have so far dodged questions about the future of New York’s largest health plan. A hearing on Tuesday could provide some insight.

Like many New York City mayors before him, Zohran Mamdani is trekking up to Albany on Wednesday to beg the state for money. But the new mayor is arming himself with an unusually provocative argument: ...

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Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. It was a Thursday in Brooklyn, the day when investors descend on the ...

State-run youth prisons are severely understaffed. A Rochester-area facility has regularly operated with only a tenth of the staff it’s supposed to have available to supervise youth. Incarcerated ...