Five officers of IBOTU, an obscure Long Island union, collected more than $27 million over the past decade — nearly half the dues its members paid.

New York's only statewide newsroom dedicated to holding Albany accountable.

New York Focus is growing bigger and better with its first-ever events manager and a permanent hire for its managing editor role.

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

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

The Knights Inn, profiled by New York Focus and ProPublica last year, had received health and safety complaints for years.

The Survivors First Act, a bill awaiting Governor Kathy Hochul's signature, would relax restrictions on who can qualify for victim compensation.

In May, state lawmakers passed a $269 billion budget after haggling for months over thousands of line items and policies affecting New Yorkers.

Trump administration rules are keeping immigrant kids detained, even when their parents are available to care for them. Families are using a new legal…

Oswego County sheriff’s deputies held drivers for up to 45 minutes as they waited for immigration agents, potentially breaking the law.

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

Limited information, health care challenges, hot flashes and mood swings make this an especially difficult life transition.

Bedford, NY – New York State Senator Pete Harckham and Assemblymember Chris Burdick sent a joint letter today to the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), calling for an...

The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, theyremained on the job, an investigation found.

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

The Trump administration is using a years-old scandal first prosecuted under the Biden administration to justify its immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

The feds gave New York key evidence on horse racing’s largest doping ring. State regulators have done nothing with it for years.

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At least 717 million devices like the one used in the Brown University mass shooting have been produced and distributed during a 30-year period, including a decade when they were banned.

The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly

Our data analysis of over 1,700 hospitals across the US suggests that for-profit healthcare systems appear more susceptible to high C-section rates.

The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

Tensions over a proposed 67-mile transmission line have rocked Maryland's farming communities, as the nation’s largest grid operator says data centers are driving power demands.

Joe Campbell says his calling is to share God’s love, but a group of women say he sexually abused them as girls. An NBC News investigation uncovered decades of missed warnings and failures to act.