After years of studies and planning, New York finally appears poised to move ahead with its biggest effort to fund the ...

A NY Focus update about an increase in emissions, violence within the prison system, and a breakup of two nonprofits over ...

Here are the major findings from a months-long investigation into what allegedly takes place inside the Queens Supreme ...

When Governor Kathy Hochul took office in 2021, she didn’t want to pick fights with the legislature. She rejected less than 60 of the nearly 900 bills the legislature passed that year, the lowest veto ...

This is my first year as a reporter working the education beat. I’ve learned a lot in the last nine months — not least of which is how incredibly complex and multifaceted the education system is in ...

Chris Bragg, New York Focus’s Albany bureau chief, reflects on how even the most familiar topics brought new twists to his ...

I started off 2024 on the climate/environment beat, often reporting with my colleague Colin Kinniburgh. My question was often ...

New York Focus climate reporter Colin Kinniburgh reflects on his environmental coverage over the past year and what’s coming ...

For the first time under Governor Kathy Hochul, criminal justice was not a dominating feature of New York state legislative news this year. After three years of Hochul demanding rollbacks to landmark ...