Within a month, the president has fired his homeland security secretary and attorney general. A person familiar with his ...

New York state is seeing the highest number of flu cases ever recorded in a single week, according to the state Department of Health. Health officials reported 71,123 positive flu cases during the ...

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border ...

The diseases were removed from a list of tests the agency conducts for state and local health departments. Experts worry that ...

Greene County has completed tree clearing for a new $15 million Department of Mental Health building in Cairo. The ...

Protesters on Sunday night swarmed the site of a planned men’s homeless shelter in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, waving American flags and holding signs.

Tension and anxiety is high throughout the Brighton community after a major construction project on school property uncovered ...

NY's path to ending nearly free health coverage for 460K spanned months of political debate. Here's how we reported it.

For 50 years, the state has advised against eating Hudson River fish due to PCB contamination. Environmentalists say the ...

The $2.51 billion spending plan includes increases for early childhood initiatives and a new public health lab - but less funding to fight communicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and ...

Class 2 sites represent a significant threat to public health or the environment and action is required, DEC said.

Out of 102 health inspections conducted in Monroe County last month, 30 had critical violations, 14 had no violations, and 87 ...