When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in...
A new mayoral task force will study the dysfunctional 143-year-old civil service system and propose changes in Albany.
County and local district attorneys oversaw higher state prison admissions during election years than in other years during the height of the nation’s “tough on crime”...
The GOP candidate for governor submitted requests that could have granted him over $860,000 in public money he isn’t eligible for.
A vaguely written new law raises questions about how and when the state will take action against "informal" collaboration. Some sheriffs are suing.
The official poverty rate in the United States dipped slightly by half a percentage point last year to a historic low of 10.2%, according to U.S....
The Republican incumbent accuses his opponent of supporting data centers, but has avoided taking a clear position on their buildout in New York.
Nearly 80 public water systems across the state — from Long Island to the Adirondacks — are tainted by toxins over state limits, our analysis found.
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany are starting to invest in safer streets for cyclists, advocates say.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that...