As Small Business Services commissioner, Kenny Minaya will be charged with slashing fees and helping street vendors.

As Zohran Mamdani prepares to unveil property tax reforms, he must weigh a plan he inherited from his predecessor.

Over his more than two decades as a clean energy entrepreneur and commentator, Jigar Shah has established himself as one of ...

An anti-development New York City Councilmember approved a project in her district rather than risk being overruled by a new appeals board — the first sign of a potential sea change in the city’s ...

The state rescinded its request to dismiss a sexual abuse lawsuit after a judge became aware of New York Focus’s findings.

Officials have long eyed “virtual power plants,” which coordinate energy use across thousands of homes, but the state has lagged in adopting them.

Last year, after prison guards were caught beating an incarcerated man to death, Governor Hochul allocated millions to a prison oversight body. This ...

New York City's taxpayers account for a disproportionate share of the state's revenue, enabling the state to spend more in poorer regions. The state's budgets have mostly sent more money to the city ...

State-run youth prisons are severely understaffed. A Rochester-area facility has regularly operated with only a tenth of the staff it’s supposed to have available to supervise youth. Incarcerated ...

An investigator with the New York State Police helped get a friend’s traffic tickets reduced “in exchange” for her sexually explicit photos, according to a disciplinary letter from 2017. Another ...

If 2025 was the year Governor Kathy Hochul embraced “abundance” as the solution to New York’s woes — above all, the rising cost of living — 2026 is her year to show that she was just getting started.