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New York State Republicans assemble in Manhattan this week to choose their nominees for the fall election season.

For the third year in a row, New Yorkers are the worst drivers in the country. That's according to an annual nationwide test given by GMAC Insurance.

The test polled over 5,000 drivers around the country with questions from state Department of Motor Vehicles exams. The national average for the ...

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The latest estimates say the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is already the largest in the nation's history, exceeding even the Exxon Valdez accident. Has ...

President Barack Obama, faced with mounting criticism of his administration's response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is set to travel to the region on Friday. Before he does, though, he will address the press and ...

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor of New York, has selected Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy to join him on the ballot as candidate for lieutenant governor.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, one of the Democratic candidates for Governor of New York, has selected Democratic Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy to join him on the ball...

The Whitney plans to break ground on the new building in Lower Manhattan next year.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has said his choice of Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy as his running mate sends a tough message to labor unions since he has a reputation for hard-nosed negotiating.

The Jets and Giants will host Super Bowl 48 at their new Meadowlands stadium.

The Broadway industry made more than $1 billion and sold nearly 12 million tickets in its 2009-10 season. That's a 1.5 per cent increase from the 2008-09 season, according to The Broadway League.

The city is seeking a developer to build a new home for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem across 125th Street from the famed Apollo Theater.

The complex will include an art house movie theater and a satellite office of the city's tourism agency.

Today the city's Economic Development Corporation ...

City officials say a plan for a mosque just blocks from ground zero will need the approval of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission. They say 45 Park Place was built in the 1850's and is both historically and architecturally significant. The building used to house the Burlington Coat Factory. The ...

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is telling high school principals they can lay off their parent coordinators next fall, if that helps them keep a teacher or after school program.

NJ Transit riders should check their schedules this morning. That's because the nation's third-largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit cut is cutting 31 weekday trains, or four percent of its daily load, to plug an ongoing budget deficit.

Andrew Cuomo is the eldest son of Mario Cuomo, New York Governor from 1983 to 1994.

New Yorkers used to the cost of living constantly going up can brace for another increase.

Overseas markets are down today on continuing fears about the health of the Euro, while the Dow continues to fluctuate.

On today’s Financial 411 we’ll be talking about this week’s market volatility.

How are the market ups and downs are affecting your investment strategies? Leave your comment below.

Fourth grade reading scores in New York City went up four points on a national reading test. That's considered a significant gain compared to other large cities.

An official familiar with the investigation into the Times Square bombing plot said the suspect Faisal Shahzad said he had thought about targeting other landmarks in New York City.

Lawyers made their final arguments today in the murder trial of Rodolfo Godinez. He is one of six defendants accused in a brutal 2007 killing of three college students in a Newark schoolyard. These were young adults with promising futures, and the crime was shocking, even by the violent standards ...