Queens lawmakers are joining Resorts World’s push, saying the casino expansion could otherwise collapse. Governor Hochul ...

New York counties face more than $1 billion in added SNAP costs as federal funding falls, potentially forcing property tax ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is canceling a contract with T-Mobile to hook up New York City public school students’ laptops with cell service. The contract would have cost well over $100 million over the next ...

Three takeaways from our reporting on Operation Stonegarden, a federal program that links local police to Border Patrol.

If you’ve read an op-ed attributed to a New York politician in the last few months, there’s a good chance that not all of it was written by a human being. To track the rising use of artificial ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. When lawmakers left Albany for the year last week, they walked away ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. More than a decade ago, Queens teacher Nicole Radosti Pipia’s fifth ...

Governor Hochul has touted a new law that bans New York police from formally partnering with ICE to conduct immigration arrests. A little-known program still pays deputies to help Border Patrol detain ...

On Tuesday, the New York City Council held an emergency oversight hearing in response to New York Focus reporting that the police department had covertly used a free internet program to gain real-time ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. A recent spate of rulings suggests that New York’s top court is headed ...