Chris Alexander, the embattled head of New York’s Office of Cannabis Management, is stepping down, Spectrum News NY1 has learned. The executive director of the Office of Cannabis Management announced ...

More than 150 legal cannabis dispensaries across the state are being told they’ll have to shut down because of an error in how the state measured their proximity to ...

A new city law for short-term rentals in the city took effect Tuesday. Local Law 18, also known as the Short-Term Rental Registration Law, requires hosts on Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com and other ...

Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is officially the Democratic nominee in the November general election for mayor after winning in the final round of ranked-choice voting, the city’s Board of ...

The city will expand its mental health services for New Yorkers as part of a plan Mayor Eric Adams unveiled Thursday. “We must focus on the brain as much as the body,” Adams said in an address ...

A $1.5 billion plan to tear down two New York City Housing Authority complexes in Manhattan and replace them with new high-rise apartments for current tenants is moving forward, city officials say.

Joe Biden’s job performance over his first three years in the White House is being viewed more favorably by presidential experts than by Americans overall, a new ranking of the United States’ 45 ...

Cuts to the city budget mean public libraries will no longer be open seven days a week, officials said. The last day of Sunday service for the New York Public Library and Queens Public Library will be ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that the 25% tariff U.S. President Donald Trump planned to impose is on hold for a month following a conversation between the neighboring countries’ ...

Congestion pricing turned six months old Saturday, and Gov. Kathy Hochul is boasting that the tolling program is reducing traffic in the city, among other benefits. The number of vehicles is down 11%, ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul will deploy the National Guard and state police into the subway system to help with bag checks following a recent surge in transit crime. Seven hundred and fifty National Guard ...

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday did not rule out a switch back to the Republican Party, deflecting questions about the possibility by saying he was "part of the American party." Adams was a registered ...