Today is the halfway point of the annual Sunshine Week, to promote openness and transparency in government nationwide. While ...

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul seems to have opened the door to permitting the roughly 2,000 state prison correctional officers who were fired last week to work for other law enforcement agencies in New York ...

Retirement homes would be able to use the funding to help solve staffing challenges and improve care for residents.

Orleans and Genesee counties have are considering putting their opposition to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive order regarding ...

Should phones be banned from bell to bell? Or only during instructional periods? That’s at the heart of an emerging divide.

New York's prisons are working to rebuild themselves after a devastating, 22-day strike of nearly 8,000 corrections officers and the firing of about 2,000. The independent citizens oversight group ...

Along an industrial stretch of roadway in New Jersey’s biggest city, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka appeared with immigrants rights ...

They've drunk the decarceration Kool-Aid — and they're convinced that jails do more harm than good. Yet the facts prove them wrong.

Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and even Arizona’s Democratic governor are pursuing statewide plans to help find immigrants for possible deportation.

As Gov. Hochul bars 2,000 correction officers from ever working with the state again, uncertainty hangs over them and the ...

Both the State Assembly and Senate rejected Governor Kathy Hochul’s attempt to rollback reforms to the state’s ...

Amid plans to slash more than 1,300 jobs from the U.S. Department of Education, a Boston office is also on the chopping block ...