The state's first foray into public campaign finance has fewer constraints than the city's scandal-plagued model.

After DA Sandra Doorley berated a police officer over a traffic stop, Hochul referred her to a commission formed under Cuomo.

Hardware that breaks into your phone; software that monitors you on the internet; systems that can recognize your face and track your car: The New York State Police are drowning in surveillance tech.

It's the first step New York has taken to address its housing shortage in years — but tenant groups are fuming and real ...

Low-wage manual laborers can sue to make their bosses pay them weekly. Hochul's late-breaking budget addition may undermine ...

The Division of the Budget staff were dressed in pink. Clustered around a pink chair in the New York State Capitol basement’s indispensable Dunkin’ Donuts, they giddily proclaimed their cause: “Wear ...

State Assembly leadership this week rejected efforts to include a landmark gas transition proposal in the state budget — despite the fact that the chamber has a supermajority of Democrats sponsoring ...

UPDATE: April 17, 2024 — After this story was published, the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government released unredacted copies of its commissioners’ conflict of interest forms. This story has ...

In April 2018, at a New York City intake center for homeless families, Melina Cardona and five other city employees handcuffed a woman who had just walked in to get information about emergency housing ...

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