As negotiations over changes to the state’s evidence-sharing laws hold up the passage of the state’s budget in Albany, a recent criminal case in Queens appears to highlight the core of the debate over discovery.
Read MoreThough a number of major questions remain about the city’s early efforts to bring a long-desired level one trauma hospital to the Rockaway peninsula, the city recently checked off a big to-do off their list – figuring out where it will be built.
Read MoreThe MTA will soon hold a series of public town halls on their ambitious plan to build a light rail from Queens to Brooklyn, even as funding for the project remains in question.
Read MoreBoth the State Assembly and Senate rejected Governor Kathy Hochul’s attempt to rollback reforms to the state’s evidence-sharing laws on Tuesday, setting up a fight over the proposal as the deadline to pass the state budget approaches.
Read MoreActivists and elected officials rallied in Albany on Tuesday to call for prison reforms after a 22-year-old incarcerated man was killed after allegedly being beaten by prison guards over the weekend.
Read MoreWhile Governor Kathy Hochul has worked to ease the crisis facing New York’s prisons, she has yet to utilize a power granted only to her that could lead to the release of dozens, if not hundreds, of people locked for decades in New York’s prisons.
Read MoreAfter a tumultuous two weeks and general silence from the mayor on the chaos, Eric Adams faced reporters on Monday and largely deflected an onslaught of questions about his ongoing legal and political troubles.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul proposed on Thursday reigning in New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a set of “political sanctions,” stopping short of removing him from office – for now.
Read MoreThe city paid out over $205 million in police and prosecutorial misconduct settlements last year, marking a seven-year high, according to a new analysis released by the Legal Aid Society.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams claimed victory during an address on Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice called on prosecutors to at least temporarily drop the bribery and corruption charges brought against Adams last year.
Read MoreHow Queens’ youngest elected got his first bill passed.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul proposed a series of changes to the state’s discovery reforms during her annual State of the State address Tuesday.
Read MoreOverall crime was down in 2024, the mayor and police commissioner said on Monday. However, that isn't stopping them from deploying more cops to the city’s streets and subways.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul in December vetoed the Jury of Our Peers Act shooting down what would have been the last bill made into law by now-retired Queens Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul’s promise to issue clemency on a rolling basis has stalled this year, concerning advocates who say hundreds of New Yorkers deserve a shot at release from prison.
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