For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they're feeding it to ...

State leaders have weighed how to tackle the challenge and its overlap with homelessness, which has more than doubled in New ...

A lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and any other day ...

Here are the key findings from the second installment of our investigation into New York’s conviction integrity units.

The country’s biggest public housing authority is counting on a Chinese company to supply thousands of new energy-saving ...

Following New York Focus’s reporting, the state health department is moving to implement a law meant to boost kidney ...

Residents of Sackets Harbor, a small New York town that looks at Canada across Lake Ontario, have been reeling since federal immigration enforcement agents raided a dairy farm there last month. Agents ...

A top judge failed to disclose that his key legal advisor was romantically involved with an attorney arguing cases in his courtroom. The apparent conflict of interest extends to the highest levels of ...

Natalie Colon Vasquez works as a clerk at Woodhull Medical Center, a public hospital in north Brooklyn, checking in patients struggling with addiction. She hopes to become an addiction counselor ...