‘This Place Is a Circus’: Eight Months Since a Guard Strike, State Prisons Remain in Crisis Many incarcerated New Yorkers say the new normal is endless lock-in. Chris Gelardi · October 30, 2025 Prison ...

Muhssia King’s unsolved killing raises questions about what authorities did to protect a key witness in a Rockland County ...

Using an exemption to a 2012 law, the Partnership for New York City has revealed the names of donors to its political arm, but not the amount each gave. New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan ...

Metadata shows that Working Families Party candidate Thomas Kenny's website was created by a campaign aide for Allen Caruso.

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. Over the past two and a half years, 17-year-old Ana Ortega has visited ...

New York approved thermal energy network pilots in Buffalo and Haverstraw but rejected nine others over concerns about costs.

Last month, New York City Public Schools announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence through eighth grade — making it the highest-profile example of a school ...

When New York abruptly backed down this month from its plans to implement a nation-leading ban on gas in new buildings, some legal observers had questions. Lawmakers passed the All-Electric Buildings ...

A new trove of New York State Police disciplinary records reveals light penalties for credible domestic violence allegations ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. A Wall Street mogul with unclear motives is gearing up to spend nearly a ...

In the Bronx, where Democratic voters outnumber Republicans nearly 10 to one and incumbents usually cruise to reelection, the local Democratic Party recently had a surprising fundraising streak. Over ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. The state legislature is proposing a major increase in funding to help ...