Ilya Marritz

The Occupy Wall Street protests show no sign of letting up. In fact, the warm weather and a school holiday drew some new people to the protests — a large numbers of teachers, parents and kids were at Zuccotti Park on Monday. 

Department of Environmental Conservation Chief Joseph Martens submitted to nearly three hours of intense questioning by members of a New York State Assembly committee on an issue that has inflamed passions like few others: high volume hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as 'fracking.'

Women still earn less money than men, but in New York State they are closing the gap.

More than 250 physicians and medical professionals have signed a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo requesting the state devote more study to the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing before issuing permits for the controversial natural gas drilling technique.

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have riveted the nation's attention, and are now spreading to other cities, but it's unclear whether the protesters' message is actually reaching financial institutions and the people who work there.

New York is reorganizing two state regulatory agencies in hopes of preventing another financial catastrophe as a result of the near-collapse of insurance giant AIG in 2008.

Several major banks, including Bank of America, are introducing monthly fees for debit cards. And that could have negative consequences for the working poor.

A new handheld device is coming to a subway platform near you. On the West Side of Manhattan today, Amazon unveiled its hotly anticipated Kindle Fire, a tablet that will compete directly with Apple's iPad.

When the basketball team known as the New Jersey Nets moves to its new home in Brooklyn next year, it will be renamed the Brooklyn Nets, rapper Jay-Z, an investor in the team, announced on Monday.

A survey by the website Bankrate.com confirms what New Yorkers may have already noticed when withdrawing cash from an out-of-network ATM: fees are going up.

Towns and counties across New York are drawing up their budgets for 2012, and this year the job is particularly complicated. The reason is the property tax cap enacted in June.

After 44 days and the intervention of the Bloomberg administration, waiters, dish washers and bussers at the Central Park Boathouse restaurant have ended their strike.

A majority of New York state residents are aware of the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as fracking, and though most expect it would create jobs, they also believe it will cause environmental damage, according to a new poll.

If enacted, President Obama's jobs plan would create more than 27,000 jobs in New York City's hard-hit construction industry, through new infrastructure spending, according to a report prepared by Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (D-Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan).

The latest local jobs numbers offer little evidence of an economic recovery. Figures released Thursday from the New York and New Jersey Labor Departments showed a slight increase in the number of people out of work, and little change in the jobless rate.

Facing a budget deficit of $310 million next year, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano is proposing to cut 700 government jobs, consolidate police precincts— and reduce paid holidays.

Hikers Beware. That's the message from New York State officials. They are telling hikers and campers to stay away from many upstate parks and forests, as the region continues to suffer the after-effects of Tropical Storm Irene and the heavy rains that followed.

U.S. markets plunged sharply Friday amid fears about Europe and skepticism that Congress can pass President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs package.

Aggressive development of Upstate New York's natural gas resources could create tens of thousands of jobs and draw large numbers of people to live in economically depressed communities that have been losing population for decades, according to a study commissioned by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.

New York state regulators is set to release a study Wednesday on the impact of natural gas drilling on communities.