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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced its proposal to use its network of regional airports to test the use of electric aircraft has been selected to participate in a Federal Aviation Administration’s pilot program. The Port Authority will be one of eight projects nationwide to participate in the...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and rapper Cardi B announced Friday that 2-K applications will open in June. They also unveiled a jingle competition to build excitement for the program.

Brooklyn has made historic gains in public safety. In 2025, the borough recorded its fewest homicides and shootings ever, with a homicide rate lower than Vermont's recent statewide numbers and lower than every state in the South. Those gains came from a proven strategy: strong accountability for people who commit...

On April 1, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the indictment of Michael Naughton, 55, of Baldwin, New York, for allegedly operating as an unlicensed funeral director and defrauding mourning New Yorkers out of thousands of dollars, according to a news release. The 20-count indictment, unsealed in...

This week, early tensions emerged between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin after the Council released its response to the administration’s plan to close a $5.4 billion budget shortfall. The Council says it found $6 billion in savings and efficiencies and has blasted ideas like ending free...

ICE arrested more people in New York from November to January than any other time since 2022. Arrests took place across the state from New York City courthouses to the Canadian border.

Four individuals tied to a firm running homeless shelters in NYC were taken into custody on charges of paying out bribes to city workers in return for kickbacks, with the news going viral amid claims that NYC Council Member Farah Louis and her sister, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, are being probed regarding the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council began to butt heads Wednesday over how to address the city’s multi-billion dollar shortfall after the Council released its response to the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal. On Wednesday, Speaker Julie Menin released the Council’s preliminary budget response, which...

The state’s police oversight board suspended the certification of a sergeant in the University of Massachusetts Boston Police Department on Thursday, two days after he was indicted by federal prosecutors on bribery charges. Edouardo St. Fort, 47, of Taunton, joined the UMass Boston Police Department in 2024 after...

Data released by New York’s Rent Guidelines Board, which sets rent increases in the city’s nearly 1 million regulated apartments, is something of an Rorschach test. Everyone sees what they want to see. Tenant advocates seize on the topline number: a 6.2 percent increase in net operating income...