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.

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 New York Focus learned that the leaders of an obscure, Long Island ...

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.

The New York State Police have quietly built a database of over 5,000 alleged gang members using speculative criteria like tattoos, clothing, and associations. The database is not publicized and had ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. In 2015, then-Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul helped unveil a bold plan ...

New York City's taxpayers account for a disproportionate share of the state's revenue, enabling the state to spend more in poorer regions. The state's budgets have mostly sent more money to the city ...