New York state agencies are required to consider the future likelihood of extreme weather in their decisions on public works...
Articles by Michael Virtanen
The on-demand ride-sharing app Lyft postponed its scheduled launch in New York City last Friday while a New York state...
New York is directing health officials and hospitals to identify best practices for safely handling patients in an effort to...
A U.S. judge approved a settlement Friday of a class-action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for its force-placed insurance practices, an...

New York hospital patients would no longer wake from surgery with the bad surprise of big bills from an anesthesiologist...
Vice President Joe Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that New York and the nation’s other coastal...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation that would have guaranteed job leaves for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers during...
Former American International Group executives are pursuing an ethics complaint against the New York prosecutors still bringing the charges that...

The federal government has approved funding to start a $50 million flood-mitigation project along the Queens waterfront to better protect...
New York’s top court this week reinstated a Manhattan restaurant worker’s product liability lawsuit over a lye-crystal drain cleaner, concluding...