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

A campaign group run by New York’s business lobby and backed by the American Chemistry Council failed to submit copies of ...

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

A national trade group has nearly doubled its spending in Albany since the packaging reduction bill was introduced and taken ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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