Mamdani’s plans for universal child care, fare-free transit, and affordable housing rely on Albany getting on board.

Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from ...

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Last spring, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli — the steward of the state’s $273 billion pension fund — announced a policy to ...

Drew Warshaw is taking on Comptroller Tom DiNapoli with a pledge to repay the entire pot of unclaimed funds as soon as ...

The bill package will now head to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk, and she could either sign, veto, or scale it back through ...

Sierra Johnson is one of nearly 1,600 women who filed claims under the Adult Survivors Act alleging sexual abuse in state ...

The state has left defrauded food stamp recipients to fend for themselves. Internal agency emails point to a long-simmering ...

As Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo put fraudulent debt collection firms on notice. He may have strengthened their hand.

Wrangling over a major bill to cut packaging waste continued until the final hours of the legislative session, ...

Here are five key takeaways from our investigation. From 2019 to 2023, defendants only responded to about 17 percent of the ...

The little-known company recently won a huge taxpayer-funded contract. It has a record of not paying doctors and leaving ...