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A healthcare consultant pleaded guilty to bribing former state Senator Carl Kruger.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said it’s time to “double-down” on the state’s economic comeback — and he believes the way to do that is by enacting the ten-percent, across-the-board cut in the state’s income tax he proposed during his State of the State address this week.

Call it a scarlet letter for New York City motorists.

The St. Patrick's Day parade in Hoboken has been canceled because officials could not agree on a date to hold it.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown down a challenge to Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt over the outcome of Sunday's playoff game between the Giants and the Packers.

Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy laid out dozens of proposals Wednesday aimed at improving the state's response to major storms after one knocked out power for 12 days in October.

New Hampshire jokingly brags that its voters don't pick a presidential candidate until they've met them at least three times face to face. Granite State residents got that and more in the run-up to the first presidential primary in the nation. For 60 years the state has held the earliest primary, getting first say in who might be elected in November.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie remembered a friend instead of delivering his State of the State address as a new legislative session begins on a somber note Tuesday.

On the last day of New Jersey's legislative session, several bills were wound their way through the halls in Trenton.

Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly say sending the governor a gay marriage bill will be a top priority in the new legislative session.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers say they're in plea negotiations in a rare state-level terror case against a New York City man charged with building a homemade bomb to try to attack soldiers, police and other government targets.

The city's teachers union claims the Department of Education's teacher evaluation system in a full-page letter to parents in the Daily News Monday claiming the system gives "unlimited power" to administrators.

Several pieces of legislation are expected to pass, including a bill that would allow for-profit companies to build and operate new public schools in the state's three largest cit...

The union that represents the New York City Opera chorus says it's not optimistic about contract negotiations this weekend.

WNYC's morning news producers bring you a rundown of today's must-read stories.

Richard Lipsky pled guilty Wednesday to two counts of bribing former New York State Senator Carl Kruger.

Voters rendered the first verdict in the 2012 race for the White House on Tuesday in Iowa caucuses from Adel to Zearing. GOP candidates blanketed the state, while Democratic President Barack Obama spoke to delegates via live feed.

A funeral service will be held in New York this week for three girls killed with their grandparents in a Christmas morning house fire in Connecticut.

One in four people in our region got into a car and drove at least 50 miles over the holiday period that ended Monday, according to AAA.