New York Focus and Hell Gate, a worker-owned publication covering NYC news and culture, have teamed up to present an evening ...

The Trump administration has dealt a blow to the state’s food bank network, which supports around 3 million New Yorkers.

Before 2021, the state legislature would appropriate about $18 million a year to chip away at the queue. That money got ...

The state will spend $8 billion to pay off its debt to the feds and increase unemployment benefits for the first time in six ...

Hochul’s budget includes $37 billion for education, but the state Education Department is slamming one policy change as ...

The final budget stops short of what legislators and advocates hoped for and appears to reflect more of Governor Hochul’s ...

The state budget, finalized this week, increased the spending requirement on the city for the first time since the 1990s.

New York’s budget includes $1 billion for climate action — a record amount, but less than the state was supposed to raise by ...

Nearly four months after Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled her proposed budget, lawmakers yesterday passed a $254 billion final agreement — after having just a few days to comb through thousands of pages ...

The final budget excludes a loophole that would have exempted corporate giants like Spotify and Amazon, after New York Focus ...

Each year, the state comptroller reviews the finances of more than 670 school districts. The office’s latest report found 22 ...

Now in his 14th year, Mike Spano is Yonkers’s longest-serving mayor. According to his 2023 financial disclosure form, 22 of ...