Amid abortion bans and rising digital surveillance, Albany lawmakers are revisiting an effort to stop companies from selling sensitive health information.
Unions want state leaders to sweeten their retirement packages. What would it cost, and what would it achieve?
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
The legislature left the climate law untouched for now, but Governor Kathy Hochul could still push for changes in coming weeks.
The bill would dissolve contracts that allow federal immigration authorities to use county jails, but would leave more informal collaboration with local law enforcement untouched.
Outgoing Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city’s pension funds to reconsider $42 billion in investments with the firm, but it may fall to his successor to take action.
Voters across the state are scratching their chins about a question on their ballots concerning an Adirondacks winter sports facility. Here’s what’s going on.
The initiative to resettle asylum seekers outside New York City reached half the targeted number of familes. ICE has deported some participants.
Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.
Nonprofit hospitals are required to help those struggling with medical debt, but critics say their policies are poorly advertised and underutilized.
Learn the income thresholds, deadlines, and free support services that help New Yorkers shave down or sometimes completely erase medical debt.
In some counties, the waitlist for state-funded mental health treatment programs can exceed two years.
Drastic cutbacks coupled with skyrocketing utility costs put seniors and other vulnerable households at greater risk for severe illness and death.
Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders to step in before it’s too late.
Roughly 60,000 children will lose vouchers over the next year without more funding.
Thousands of New Yorkers have had their food benefits stolen. Meanwhile, Congress will likely move forward with major cuts to the lifeline program.
A 2023 law is transforming the state power authority into one of New York’s biggest renewable developers. Some still want it to go further.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
New York has spent more on child care assistance in recent years, but high child care costs continue to drive families out of the state and into poverty.
In the last three years, New York has become the sports betting capital of the US.