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The pressure was on New York lawmakers this weekend to get federal funds to help cover the billions in damage from Superstorm Sandy, and homeowners have been waiting for help too.
An internal state police investigation has found that a claim that New Jersey State Assemblyman Nelson Albano (D-Vineland) was improperly issued a speeding ticket earlier this year was unfounded.
WCBS 880's Wayne Cabot asked factcheck.org researcher Eugene Kiley if it's really possible, as Democrats prefer, to balance the books without cutting the big three entitlements - Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
New York City Comptroller John Liu has proposed issuing Green Apple Bonds to complete remediation by 2015 -- six years ahead of the city's schedule.
Long Island Congressman Steve Israel says he'll talk to Long Island Rail Road officials about their refusal to refund riders with monthly and weekly tickets that went unused because of a lack of service after superstorm Sandy.
President Barack Obama is taking his case for avoiding a potentially unsettling "fiscal cliff" to the public on Friday, employing campaign-style tactics in hopes of mobilizing support.
The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a more than two-thirds majority to recognize the state of Palestine.
The measure passed 23-16 without a single Republican vote in the affirmative.
A day after meeting with Congressional leaders in Washington to appeal for $10 billion in federal storm relief, Mayor Bloomberg sounded optimistic.
A Moreland Commission launched earlier this month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued subpoenas to utilities in a probe of their response and recovery operations during Superstorm Sandy.
State budget director Ben Barnes calls the cuts difficult but necessary to balance the budget.
Former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, the only announced Democratic candidate for mayor, was joined on the panel by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, current comptroller John Liu and public advocate Bill de Blasio.
The three-mile pipeline would run from the Atlantic Ocean beneath Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways and under Jamaica Bay to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field.
In a letter from the mayor's office addressed to New York's Congressional Delegation, Bloomberg asked for help in "securing supplemental and expedited funding" for the five boroughs.
New York State environmental regulators have asked for another three months to finalize new gas drilling rules so that a study of the health impacts of practices such as fracking can be completed, an agency spokeswoman said Tuesday.
