New York Focus

Albany leaders are wading into the tax fight between state regulators and New York City’s brand-new casino — not to resolve it, but to protect the state’s horseracing industry while the dispute plays out.

Resorts World, which in Apri...

In 2015, then-Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul helped unveil a bold plan to reverse decades of severe poverty in Rochester.

She hailed the effort — now called the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI) — as an innovative model that could one day be

On June 1, thousands of New Yorkers received notices that their monthly food benefits might end due to new work requirements that kicked in this March. It’s the latest in a series of changes limiting eligibility and access to the Supplemental Nutritional As...

Fresh off opening New York City’s first full-scale casino, the owner of Resorts World is already locked in a dispute with the state about how much money the company owes.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake in the disagreement, which centers on the payments that casinos are required to make to support the state’s horseracing industry. The Queens-based casino ar...

It’s two months late, but it’s finally here: New York state’s $269 billion budget.

The big story of this year’s budget was the face-off between Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who made “tax the rich” a rallying cry of his campaign. Even as she stumped for Mamdani last fall, Hochul was adamant that she would not raise taxes on the wealthy. <...