Mayor

Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a new plan to help Broadway get back to business which includes vaccinating the theater community.

Democrat Ray McGuire raised $2.5 million for his mayoral campaign since January as the New York mayoral primary race heats up.

Andrew Yang enters an already crowded race to be mayor candidate pool. Reported by Andrew Siff.

The 2020 presidential hopeful said Wednesday he is running for mayor of New York. “I am running for mayor because I see a crisis – and I believe I can help,” said Andrew Yang.

The mayor and former police chief of a northern New York town was arrested on drug charges after an undercover drug operation, authorities said. Timmy Currier, the mayor of Massena, threw a gram of crack cocaine out of his car window before his arrest Tuesday, the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The sheriff’s office...

David Dinkins, New York City’s first and only Black mayor, has died at 93. Jonathan Dienst and David Ushery report.

Leaders, and residents remembers NYC’s First Black Mayor, David Dinkins. Tracie Strahan reports.

Ray McGuire, a top executive at Citigroup, is set to leave the bank and run for mayor of New York.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner briefed the public on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Beta made landfall and brought torrential rain to Houston and the surrounding region.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new multi-agency task force Tuesday to crack down on illegal fireworks as complaints across the five boroughs soar to unprecedented levels for this time of year. Katherine Creag reports.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD face questions about how some officers are handling protesters. Tracie Strahan reports.

At some point during an employee’s house part, Mayor John Roth went upstairs, took off his pants and crawled into an empty bed to fall asleep

The mayor of Mahwah admitted that at a party hosted by a town employee, he drank too much then took off his pants before getting into an empty bed and falling asleep. NBC New York’s Ken Buffa reports.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

As he labors to win over black voters whose support is vital to his Democratic presidential bid, Pete Buttigieg found a receptive host on Sunday in a civil rights activist who has sought to continue the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for a racially diverse national campaign against poverty. After attending services at the Rev. William Barber’s Greenleaf Christian...

Joe Sestak ended his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, telling supporters that he couldn’t raise money because he was unable to break through in the media. Sestak, a former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania who turns 68 next week, qualified for none of the Democratic debates and failed to register even 1 percent in most opinion polls, NBC...

Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president and he will not take a salary if he wins, according to senior aides who offered new details on Saturday about the New York billionaire’s plans to navigate his wealth as he marches toward a formal 2020 announcement. “He has never taken a political contribution in his life....

This holiday season there will be a new addition to the town green in East Haven.

Colombian President Iván Duque ordered a curfew in the nation’s capital Friday amid continuing unrest following a massive march a day before that brought tens of thousands to the streets in a strong message of rejection against his conservative government.

The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in a case involving sales of her self-published children’s books.