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The repaving will take place during the spring and summer and includes around 20 miles of streets that need repairs. -
The $354.4 million spending plan is an increase of 6.5% over last year, mainly due to inflation and soaring energy costs. -
About 80 people filled the courtroom at DeWitt town hall for a recent town hall-style meeting with the county executive. -
The stakes are high for the Nassau County executive, who has struggled to raise funds to compete with Gov. Kathy Hochul. -
Among the various tax proposals in Albany is one that would repeal a decades-old sales-tax exemption for purchases of gold and silver. -
Researchers with Cornell University found that as smoke drifted into New York during the June 2023 wildfires in Canada, breeding grassland birds sang and chirped less.
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In the order issued Monday, the judge wrote that President Trump had failed to make the argument that the article, which described a letter to Epstein that the newspaper said bore Trump's signature, was published with the intent to be malicious. -
Harvard professor Namwali Serpell has been teaching Morrison for nearly two decades. Her book, On Morrison is a deep dive into the Nobel winner's complete body of work — 11 novels, plays and criticism.
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Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.
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Buffalo Common Council Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope was tapped by the Erie County Democratic Committee to replace longtime Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes in November's general election. -
President Trump said the U.S. would interdict vessels that had to pay what he called an "illegal toll" to Iran to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
