NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The teenager charged with killing a 5-year-old girl then dumping her body in a garbage can wasn't around when the little g...
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Two teenagers were arrested Monday in connection with the death of a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her great-grandmoth...
He says he will deliver us a city "safer, stronger, greener and healthier -- and better than ever." Who can argue with that? As for the details, polls indicate he'll have four years to nail those down.
A preliminary report from a consultant hired by New York City warns that "nearly every activity" associated with natural gas drilling could potentiall...
NEW YORK — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won a third term as New York mayor Tuesday in a closer-than-expected race against a Democratic challeng...
Maybe you want what Bloomberg's got: the NYPD guards, the keys to Gracie Mansion, the $1-a-year salary. Are you cut out for it? Take this quiz and find out.
Thirty million to repair the Brooklyn Bridge? The mayor spent more than that on television ads. Ten million for fixing Head Start centers? The mayor topped that on campaign consultants.
The real test of any mayor is how well the city works. In his eight years in office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has managed to make the unpredictable cit...
Bloomberg is on pace to spend $118 million on this year's race and over a quarter of a billion dollars in declared campaign expenditures on his three runs for office.
Given Thompson's financial disadvantage, losing by a respectable margin to Bloomberg can be spun as a moral victory, so in a sense Thompson can't lose. But his people think they can win.
NEW YORK — A Democrat is struggling to unseat the mayor of the nation's largest city, but top party leaders are staying on the sidelines. The D...
For a normal mortal, Michael Bloomberg's 5-point mayoral win would be a healthy victory. For him, it looks like a desperate scraping of the barrel.
The president's Achilles heel is his need to present an image always above the fray. Our brilliant Obama loves his self image too much.
This record makes it hard to believe that Bloomberg would sit on the sidelines and let the City Council lead the way on term limits, probably the most significant decision of his term.
Denying the ability of your opponents is fine. Denying their existence is arrogant. There's no glory in having so much money you can crush any opponent.
BIll Thompson won the Dem nomination, but the real story was elsewhere. In City Council contests, voters delivered the broadest upset to incumbents in recent New York political history.
Who's running for what in the Sept. 15 primary? Our comprehensive guide to the election, with information on contests, candidates, how to vote -- and ...
It was a perfunctory, even predictable debate question: What would be your first act as mayor? But with the cameras rolling on Wednesday night, Wi...
During the past few months, these papers have provided ongoing coverage of the various candidates vying for office this fall, as well as overviews of ...
Here's Erica. She filmed the entirety of Bill Thompson's press conference outside of City Hall just now. She also filmed another Thompson event at Ci...
NEW YORK -- Tens of thousands of revelers gathered in Brooklyn to celebrate Caribbean culture Monday at the West Indian American Day Parade, as bright...
Neither of them has ever been arrested, or gotten into a fistfight as an adult. Neither has had the time to set foot in either of the city's new baseb...
The stakes are too high to fail. If we are to address the education challenges confronting our children, we must have an educator at the helm of our school system again.
He is rarely on television. He has not begun to advertise. He is far behind in the polls, yet seems in no rush to get going. The all-but-invisible may...
