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 ...

If you’ve read an op-ed attributed to a New York politician in the last few months, there’s a good chance that not all of it was written by a human being. To track the rising use of artificial ...

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.

Correction: This story was updated to clarify the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 1049’s position on legislation to municipalize the Long Island Power Authority. The local ...

A new law that makes it harder for parts of towns to form independent villages covers all 54,556 square miles of New York state — except for two and a half square miles in Westchester. Edgemont, a ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. A recent spate of rulings suggests that New York’s top court is headed ...