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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Special drought conditions are no longer in effect in New York City after Mayor Eric Adams lifted a drought watch Friday.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

Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged Friday to stop the runaway train of subway violence by making it easier to involuntarily commit and treat dangerous mentally ill New Yorkers — but critics quickly ...

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 ...