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 ...

New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains ...

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

The Reporters’ Notebook features bite-sized stories and updates from New York Focus reporters on the topics they cover. Seven years after a massive flood forced the St. Regis Mohawk elementary school ...

A key fund that pays for New York City employees’ health benefits has run dry, opening up a $600 million hole in the city ...