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 ...

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

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

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 ...

An independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.

New York's shelter allowances haven't been raised in decades, and can't cover the cost of rent anywhere in the state.

K, districts left millions unspent in 2024–25 — citing staffing, space, enrollment, and reimbursement challenges.

Before 6 am on Monday, Kimberly Crooks, 53, stepped out of her room at the Knights Inn to smoke a cigarette. The Broome County Department of Social Services had placed Crooks and her 12-year-old son ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. The company that runs New York’s state-funded home care program has ...