A national push for paid sick days is poised to score a significant victory, with lawmakers in the nation's largest city set to vote on requiring businesses to provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million workers who don't have it now.
The NYPD made fewer stop-and-frisk stops during the first three months of 2013.
New York City community groups are launching a large grassroots voter registration campaign ahead of this year's mayoral election. The issue? The controversial police practice known as "stop and frisk" and other policing issues in minority communities across the five boroughs.
Gov. Chris Christie has signed legislation that tightens New Jersey's human trafficking laws ahead of the 2014 Super Bowl.
After seventeen years of living as nymphs underground, the cicadas are coming back.
Baseball is not the only game in the Bronx.
New York City is planning to expand hurricane evacuation areas to encompass 640,000 more residents, and the number of zones will be doubled so the city can better tailor evacuation orders to the dynamics of a particular storm.
Student loan interest rates are threatening to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent in July.
Tourists and residents of the Jersey Shore may be in for a rare spectacle this summer as beach nourishment projects get underway.
A new report from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office gives recommendations on how the city can better prepare for natural disasters.
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