New York

A coach who was fired within hours of pulling a player’s ponytail after a loss in a New York girls basketball state championship game has issued an apology, saying his actions were unacceptable.

A sheriff’s deputy in New York will not face criminal charges for fatally shooting two Black teenagers fleeing in a car in 2023.

The suburban reservoirs that supply 10% of New York City’s vaunted drinking water are getting saltier due to decades of road salt being spread near the system — and they will eventually have to be abandoned if nothing is done to reverse the trend, city officials warn.

The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that 15 New York and New Jersey bridges be inspected for levels of risk collapse from a vessel collision as part of a nationwide call to safeguard bridges from vessel strikes following last year’s fatal collapse of Baltimore’s Scott Key Bridge. The call for safety inspections on bridges does not indicate that...

Following an investigation of the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse last year, the National Transportation Security Board recommended that 68 bridges across the United States be inspected for their risk of collapse, eight of which are in New York. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is suing the New York State Comptroller’s office to get taxpayers to pay his legal bills for yet another lawsuit Cuomo filed against the office of his political nemesis, State Attorney General Letitia James.

Various scandals that cost former Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job have already cost New York taxpayers almost $60 million in legal fees. But the New York state comptroller’s office says they are drawing a line, refusing to pay the legal fees Cuomo has racked up specifically battling his political nemesis Attorney General Letitia James. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo...

Robert Ehrlich was “falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space, and declaring that the entire Village staff was fired,” said officials in Sea Cliff, New York.

New York City never actually implemented its 2022 law that would have let 800,000 cast a ballot for mayor, city council and other local offices, but not for president, Congress or state officials

A New York City man was sentenced to life in prison after requesting nude photos from a New Jersey teen and having sex with her in a Jersey Shore hotel room.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several planned events this week to promote his new book after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Thursday he would vote to advance Republicans’ six-month funding bill that passed the House to avert a government shutdown.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday over its mass firings at the Department of Education.

More than 2,000 New York prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job were barred Tuesday from being hired for other state jobs by Gov. Kathy Hochul as officials took steps to recover from a three-week wildcat strike that severely strained the corrections system. Prison officials said Monday evening they were firing correctional officers who refused to return to work...

The state and the guards’ union struck a new deal to end the strike this weekend, but it was contingent on at least 85% of staff returning to work by Monday morning.

An inmate claims he warned officials after officers at Marcy Correctional in Upstate New York assaulted him, two months before Robert Brooks was beaten to death. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

Anyone planning to travel to a domestic destination in the United States will need a Real ID starting May 7 if they normally use their driver’s licenses to fly. This means that starting on that date, federal agencies, including DHS and TSA, may only accept state-issued driver licenses and identification cards that include the REAL ID-compliant star mark. Enhanced...

The lines are long for people trying to obtain their real IDs, and they’ll only get longer, with the deadline exactly two months away as of Friday. New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles wants to help you out. The deadline to start using the new form of identification is May 7. And the DMV will open 10 New York City…

A former U.S. solicitor general who was brought in to help a federal judge decide whether to accept a Justice Department request to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to submit written arguments Friday. Judge Dale E. Ho in Manhattan appointed Paul Clement, who was solicitor general under President George W. Bush, two weeks ago...

The House on Thursday voted to censure an unrepentant Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. It signifies a formal reprimand. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had Green removed from the chamber during the early moments of Trump’s speech Tuesday night. Green stood and shouted at Trump after the Republican president said the Nov. 5 election had delivered a...