New York’s biggest upstate cities are making room for bikes. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany — three of which are ...

Nearly 80 public water systems across the state — from Long Island to the Adirondacks — are tainted by toxins over state limits, our analysis found.

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. When New York Focus learned that the leaders of an obscure, Long Island ...

Queens lawmakers are joining Resorts World’s push, saying the casino expansion could otherwise collapse. Governor Hochul ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. When lawmakers left Albany for the year last week, they walked away ...

It’s been on New York’s agenda for well over a decade. And, once again, it’s coming down to a last-minute battle in the final days of the legislative session. The proposal is to slash the amount of ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is canceling a contract with T-Mobile to hook up New York City public school students’ laptops with cell service. The contract would have cost well over $100 million over the next ...

New York counties face more than $1 billion in added SNAP costs as federal funding falls, potentially forcing property tax hikes or service cuts.

Since the company Public Partnerships LLC took over running New York’s $11 billion state-funded home care program in April 2025, it has faced a storm of criticism from its workers and patients. Home ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. This September, a new elementary school is set to open in the South ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL’S proposed budget would guarantee a nearly half ...