As millions tuned in to watch the Super Bowl in New Orleans this month, outside the Superdome in the central French Quarter, ...

This article was published in collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus. Central New York’s Tompkins County, home to ...

Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to make it illegal to participate in the death penalty, following news that ...

Julia Rock is a reporter for New York Focus. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Intercept, the Lever, and the New York Times.

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then ...

In 1999, Dawn Jackson took a plea deal and was sentenced to 30 years in a New Jersey prison for killing her step-grandfather, Robert McBride. As told in the New York Times Metro section that summer, ...

Florida Republicans spent weeks squabbling over rival immigration bills. Their conflict wasn’t over significant policy differences: They agreed on diverting hundreds of millions in state funds toward ...

After losing his reelection bid last summer, Georgia State Court Judge Stephen Yekel turned to a loophole in state law that could have erased the result and blocked the winner from taking office. In ...