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After opposing a bag fee last year, Gov. Murphy is getting behind a sweeping plan to ban plastic bags. Businesses that currently use the bags are gearing up to fight it.

The Democratically-controlled legislature plans to pass a handful of reforms this week, like allowing early voting and holding a single primary for state and federal elections.

They've set up offices and taken their first votes. Now, the newcomers are ready for their committees.

We spent the year examining some of the most important events that happened in 1968 in the New York City region. Here's our summary. 

A new report by Bloomberg News details the threat climate change poses to the bustling transit corridor. 

In his first year as the state's top cop, Gurbir Grewal has tackled polluters, butted heads with the feds over policing immigrant communities and made moves to clean up local politics.

The company's new campus, located at 315 and 345 Hudson Street and 550 Washington Street, is set to be completed in 2022.

The National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count is underway, and non-experts are encouraged to join the effort.

Spurned on by Donald Trump's comments about immigrants and what she describes as workplace abuse, Victorina Morales took her story to The New York Times.

It's that time of year—urban farmers have brought in the last of the late summer crop. But what do you DO with an entire bowl of really hot peppers?

The creators of the podcast "10 Things That Scare Me" hope that sharing fears might make people feel less alone.

The New York City Emergency Management commissioner may have been fired. But he doesn't think so.

After an 84-year-old man died in a faulty elevator in the Bronx, top NYCHA officials continued to falsely claim lifts had been inspected, according to indictments unsealed this week.

The New York State Education Department is rolling out stricter standards for religious and private schools.

An arcane practice, led by the guy who inspired the Vin Diesel movie, "Boiler Room," is causing vulnerable small business owners to lose assets, often with no recourse. 

A New York Times investigation found that nearly every time the city's Health Department ordered NYCHA to remove lead from its apartments, the agency challenged the order.

State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins is on her way to becoming a major power broker in Albany. She has a long to-do list.

One black athlete decided to sit out the 1968 Olympics entirely in protest of the treatment of black people in the U.S. His name was Lew Alcindor. You know him as Kareem Abdul-Jabaar.

On Oct. 16, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to protest the treatment of black people in the United States and to endorse the human rights of all people.

The award-winning author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf" addressed issues of race and womanhood in her work.