In response to reporting by New York Focus and Gothamist, State Senator Zellnor Myrie has introduced a bill to standardize ...

An investigation by New York Focus and Gothamist found lenders are using a disputed method of calculating debts in thousands ...

After a year of walking back its major climate commitments, New York moved an inch forward on Monday, when the Department of ...

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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

In January 2023, the mayor of the Village of Chester, in Orange County, received an anonymous letter from a village police officer about the police chief. The letter said that, starting in 2020, Chief ...

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