The courtroom was packed on Tuesday for the start of the trial of Guy Rivera, who is accused of shooting and killing a police ...

For the second year in a row, Queens high school students competed in a civic essay competition, this time with the chance to defend their argument for a new constitutional amendment in front of the ...

A group of Republicans in Albany this week filed a formal ethics complaint against New York’s top judge, claiming he went too ...

Catherine Nolan, who represented Queens in the State Assembly for nearly four decades, passed away on Wednesday, one day before what would have been her 68th birthday.

The state legislature this week proposed boosting a civil legal services fund in its one-house budgets that attorneys say was severely underfunded in Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive budget proposal.

Queens residents told the city how they feel about their landlords at the Mamdani’s first “rental ripoff” hearing in the ...

Queens City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing her colleagues after the legislature’s ethics committee charged her with ...

Queens would receive less money per person than any other borough under the mayor’s proposed budget, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said this week.

New York’s top judge last week bashed the state’s sentencing laws, claiming “everything we are doing here is stupid,” while continuing his public plea for lawmakers to pass sentencing reforms.

The number of times Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents asked the Department of Correction to give them a heads up ...

A decomposing head was found in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge late Thursday night, prompting a major law enforcement ...

A library at the women’s jail on Rikers Island reopened this week after the resource had been shut down for nearly a year as ...