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This week on the Disabilities Beat, WBFO’s Emyle Watkins spoke with Ify Chikezie, a staff attorney at the NYCLU about what a repeal of HALT would mean for incarcerated disabled people who are currently protected from solitary confinement under the law.

The state threatened striking workers with loss of pay as Albany debates prison policy.

The challenge to one of Hochul’s “affordability agenda” items, led by state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, D-Brooklyn, is seeing renewed support while cities like Rochester and Syracuse face some of the highest child poverty rates across the country, and about 1 in 5 children across the state experience poverty.

New York Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado says he will not run for re-election in 2026 — and he is not ruling out a challenge against his current boss.

Since taking office just over a month ago, President Donald Trump has threatened punishing tariffs against Canadian and Mexican imports and continues his chatter about making Canada the fifty-first state. The result, especially north of the border, has been a dramatic pushback from average Canadians.

Many farmers already paid for equipment that the federal government said it would reimburse. Now, it’s unclear when or if they’ll get that money.

The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center will conduct archeological excavation and research thanks to a federal grant. $73,000 will fund research at the site’s Cataract House, whose free Black waitstaff risked their lives to ferry enslaved people across the river to freedom in Canada in the late 19th century.

In a day of rapid-fire developments governing the now four-day-long series of pickets being conducted statewide by corrections officers, one thing is clear - it is possible - the prison guards could be terminated if their stand-off continues.

The charges include second-degree murder, manslaughter, gang assault and tampering of evidence over the Dec. 10 death of Robert Brooks after he was beaten at Marcy Correctional Facility in Utica.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has decided against removing embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, Gothamist has learned.