New York state officials on Monday filed their formal appeal in federal court against a preliminary injunction keeping them from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on health care workers.

A new poll shows mostly good news for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul — however, there are some signs that the state’s new governor may be in for a tough year.

Despite even more new faces on the embattled public watchdog panel, the New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics' commissioners still could not generate enough votes to retract its approval of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book deal.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, accusing him of lying to the FBI and concealing information from federal agents .

Once-endangered alligators are thriving in the wild, so Louisiana authorities are proposing a deep cut in the percentage that farmers must return to marshes where their eggs were laid.

A central California county executive has pledged immediate changes after a news report revealed that vulnerable children removed from their families were living in deplorable conditions inside an office building — sleeping on conference tables, eating fast food and urinating into water bottles until social workers could find homes for them.

Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams is joining other political heavyweights in trying to ensure that a state trending increasingly Democratic in recent years does not flip back to the Republican column on Nov. 2.

The sight of electric vehicle charging stations could become more commonplace across all corners of New York state, based on a pair of bills working their way through both chambers of the legislative branch.

Bill Clinton arrived Sunday at his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital, officials said.

California has added the Pacific leatherback sea turtle to its endangered species list, guaranteeing more protections for a rapidly dwindling population.