The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

Four farms upstate won't sign or follow contracts awarded by state-appointed arbitrators after bargaining stalled.

Social services agencies across the state now place nearly half of all individuals and families seeking shelter in hotels, leaving people ...

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

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

The only PFAS bill to pass the full legislature this year was one banning the chemicals and other toxic substances in ...

Joel Jacobs is a data reporter at ProPublica. Previously, he was a data reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s ...

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

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

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

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

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