As budget negotiations continue past the April 1 deadline, New York Focus reporters have been following the story. One big question this budget season is how the state will respond to the Trump ...

Yeshivas and other nonpublic schools face a looming deadline to prove they offer an education similar to the state’s public ...

Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders ...

None of us asked to be born a certain way,” Kelly Metzgar, a transgender woman and executive director of the Adirondack North ...

Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in 10 people stopped by the ...

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Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to ...