Flags have been lowered to half-staff at federal, state and local buildings around the country to memorialize former President Jimmy Carter — but not in Nassau County, where the county executive, ...

The Festus R-6 Board of Education recently voted to donate Shropshire Park to the Douglass Cooperative High School Alumni ...

The next leader of New York City’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes will be Vijah Ramjattan, a Hindu spiritual leader ...

According to mental health experts, most people with mental illness are not violent and they are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Special drought conditions are no longer in effect in New York City after Mayor Eric Adams lifted a drought watch Friday. Adams credited above-average precipitation in recent ...

Mayor Eric Adams appointed a former correction department counselor and city hospital system interfaith leader as the new ...

Kathy Hochul is reiterating her efforts to make it easier to involuntarily commit and treat people with severe mental illness ...

The next leader of New York City’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes will be Vijah Ramjattan, a Hindu spiritual leader and progressive activist who has taken action to ...

Mayor Eric Adams is replacing the head of a city office that works with nonprofit organizations, a shakeup that comes as nonprofits complain that the city is threatening their livelihoods by failing ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday he has named a new head of City Hall’s hate crimes prevention office, more than eight months after firing his predecessor in a move that touched off a claim of ...