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Former New Jersey Governor Dick Codey refuted a report that he was the one who gave the NYPD permission to spy in New Jersey residents.

New Jersey's Education chief says 90 percent of school districts would see modest increases in state aid under Gov. Chris Christie's proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state is considering turning the Tappan Zee Bridge into a "greenway" instead of demolishing it when a new adjacent span is built.

A former City College student who said he and fellow Muslim students were spied on by an undercover officer posing as their peer – including during a whitewater rafting trip in upstate New York — told WNYC on Tuesday that he had the alleged NYPD plant in his car.

A group of emails has shed some light on the dispute over compensating Connecticut utility customers who lost power for a week or more after the October snow storm.

The governor in his budget address Tuesday proposed expanding a program that focuses on long-term social and vocational rehabilitation for former service members.

New Jersey state Senate President Steve Sweeney promised to override Governor Chris Christie's veto of a same-sex marriage bill by January 2014.

Throngs of grief-stricken family members and friends remembered  iconic songstress Whitney Houston during a private funeral on Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J, the...

Time Warner Cable and MSG reached a deal Friday that will restore Knicks home games to some 2 million cable customers in the New York area after a weeks-long standoff that resulted in a broadcast blackout.

New York City’s Comptroller John Liu, the first Asian-American elected to citywide office, joked on Friday that he'd be willing to have Knicks star Jeremy Lin give him a few pointers on how to get good press.

Governor Chris Christie followed through on his threat to reject a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New Jersey. He vetoed the bill Friday, hours after it had been delivered to his desk.

NYPD response times are up by nearly 1 minute, according to preliminary data in the Mayor's Management Report released Thursday.

A crane dropped a load of metal beams at the World Trade Center site, damaging a construction vehicle, the fire department said.

The city's Industrial Development Agency has approved giving a $100 million subsidy to food retailer Fresh Direct for their new headquarters in the Bronx.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants individuals with a violent history to be held in jail without bail.

A defendant was convicted on Tuesday in the 2007 execution-style killings of three college students in a Newark schoolyard.

A New York City police detective was released from the hospital Wednesday following a subway station shootout that resulted in the suspect's death, police said.

New Jersey is one of ten states that received a waiver from the No Child Left Behind education law on Thursday. President Barack Obama says his decision will give the 10 states the flexibility needed to set high standards for students and hold schools accountable.

The owners of the Mets want the Supreme Court to weigh in on their attempt to recover money lost in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is proposing making kindergarten mandatory for the city's 5-year olds and instituting a loan program to help middle-income families p...