Paraquat is banned in more than 70 countries. In an upstate town one resident calls “Parkinson’s Valley,” farmers are ...

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role ...

Boards of Visitors are supposed to oversee state-run disability and psychiatric programs. Almost none of them have enough ...

Health care union 1199SEIU collaborated with a troubled home care company, Public Partnerships LLC, on messaging, political ...

New York state has oscillated on criminal justice reform in recent years. Under former Governor Andrew Cuomo, it passed ...

ICE is adding 100 beds at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, but won’t say what its “hard-sided” expansion will look ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. It’s two months late, but it’s finally here: New York state’s $269 ...

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An independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. The Republican treasurer and Democratic executive director of a pro ...