Yeshivas and other nonpublic schools face a looming deadline to prove they offer an education similar to the state’s public ...

None of us asked to be born a certain way,” Kelly Metzgar, a transgender woman and executive director of the Adirondack North ...

Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in ten people stopped by ...

Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to ...

Surina Venkat is a reporter based in New York City. She has previously written for Amsterdam News and The Nation, among other ...

Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders ...

Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the ...

A key fund that pays for New York City employees’ health benefits has run dry, opening up a $600 million hole in the city ...

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“Approximately 60,000 children will lose their childcare vouchers over the next fiscal year absent a significant infusion of ...