New Yorkers will pay more for wind and solar if Hochul doesn’t sign property tax legislation in the coming days, the industry ...

Federal budget cuts will force hundreds of thousands off New York's free Essential Plan, with some families facing $10,000 ...

In at least one case, police may have violated a state court ruling prohibiting local law enforcement from conducting civil ...

Just last month, the state argued in court that it couldn’t halt the all-electric buildings law even if it wanted to. Then it ...

The conservative Democrat is sounding more like her progressive colleagues as she tries to protect immigrant constituents ...

The ruling allows young immigrants who have suffered abuse and neglect to apply for protections from deportation — at least ...

New York state is one step closer to banning fossil fuels in new buildings. On Friday, the State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council voted to recommend major updates to the state’s building code ...

The Reporters’ Notebook features bite-sized stories and updates from New York Focus reporters on the topics they cover. Over the past week, more than a dozen business interests have joined National ...

A teenage girl came forward in May 2023 with a horrifying complaint: Her adoptive father had been raping her since 2021, she told police officers in an interview at her school. After some of the ...

Baba Ndanani has lived in one of New York City’s most flood-prone neighborhoods for more than 20 years. His two-story home in the coastal, majority-Black community of Edgemere, Queens sits directly ...

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