The court-appointed remediation manager responsible for addressing the deeply rooted dysfunction and violence on Rikers Island is expected to cost taxpayers nearly $10 million for his first full year ...

The Queens district attorney's office told a judge on Thursday that it plans to appeal her January decision to vacate the conviction of Allen Porter, a 54-year-old who served over three decades in ...

Several major charges brought against a Texas man accused of making menacing phone calls and sending Islamophobic and expletive-laced emails to Mayor Zohran Mamdani were dropped Thursday after a ...

Catherine Nolan, who represented Queens in the State Assembly for nearly four decades, passed away on Wednesday, one day ...

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

The Queens district attorney’s office quietly brought charges against Jabez Chakraborty, a 23-year-old Queens man with schizophrenia who was shot by police during a mental health crisis in late ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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