Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch the next leader of the NYPD. Tisch will become the second woman police commissioner in the NYPD’s 179-year history ...

When Albany lawmakers legalized adult-use marijuana in March 2021, it was only the beginning of a complex, yearslong process. To create a legal marketplace, New York would effectively have to ...

But the Manhattan district attorney's office expressed some openness to delaying the case until after his impending second ...

Across the five boroughs, more than 6,800 people have died from a drug overdose since 2010. Addiction and its consequences is a battle the city is losing. Spectrum News NY1 follows the opioid ...

With all the attention that the upcoming presidential race is getting, it's easy to lose sight that New York City voters are being asked to head to the polls in a little more than a month.

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres is not ruling out a run for governor against fellow Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, telling Spectrum News NY1 “we have a leadership crisis in America, and nowhere is it ...

The sit-down was a departure from four years ago, when Trump did not invite Biden to the White House after his election loss.

Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a judge Wednesday to penalize him even further, saying he continues to falsely accuse ...

The city teachers union says staffing shortages are leaving thousands of children in special education classes without vital services like speech or occupational therapy, or the help of ...

WASHINGTON — South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican, wants Congress to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill, as Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride — the ...

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet Wednesday to discuss how it should move forward with its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who has been tapped by President ...