Newark airport is under fire. New Jersey Transit is on strike. And those are only the recent transit woes to hit the Garden ...

Democrat Sam Sutton has won a special election for a New York state Senate seat, repelling Republican efforts to flip the ...

NY Governor Hochul reports a 32% drop in drug overdose deaths in 2024, highlighting the state's successful opioid crisis ...

Defending and Securing Voting Rights Forum features a presentation by Professor John Mollenkopf of CUNY’s Graduate Center and ...

The state legislature will tackle the sentencing reform laws as a priority in the remaining session, but they remained outside the budget. Research from the Vera Institute shows 74% of polled New ...

Sunset Park moves ahead with plans for a “just transition” after the Trump administration lifts its stop-work order on the ...

A number of New York City cannabis dispensaries have set up shop in wealthier retail corridors and have dressed the part ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The enacted state budget for fiscal year 2025 creates a formal New York State Office of ... “to prevent and address gun violence.” It’s supposed to manage grant ...

Governor Kathy Hochul has put her signature on a New York state budget. The $254 billion spending plan that comes more than a ...

Senator Pat Fahy and Assemblymembers John McDonald and Gabriella Romero, all Democrats, gathered in mid-January at Harriman Campus, which they would like to see transformed from a 1960s "car ...

A final state budget deal between Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers will include $450 million for a new emergency ...

Lawmakers approved plans to issue "inflation" checks alongside making school meals free for students in public schools, among ...