New York City's drinking water could eventually absorb a blow if reservoirs supplying a portion of it become vacated due to ...

The Medicare and Medicaid cut would strip healthcare for millions of seniors, children and people with disabilities.

The looming threat of federal funding cuts is creating uncertainty among lawmakers working on the New York state budget.

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The New York Times sent a wide-ranging survey to candidates for governor of New Jersey about housing, immigration, abortion, transit, affordability, schools and climate.

On Thursday, a judge deemed Bronx resident Waldo Mejia unfit to stand trial and ordered him into psychiatric treatment.

New York lawmakers want to close a major FDA loophole that allows companies to self-certify food additives as safe.

The resident is reportedly recovering at home while officials are working to identify the source of the infection and if any ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Influential health care union 1199SEIU urged postponing the April 1 start of a single administrator to replace hundreds of companies the governor has called a costly “racket.” ...

The Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York want the state to boost the ...