A “yes means yes” provision and other protections against sexual assaults on campus would be expanded to New York’s private colleges and universities under a law proposed Saturday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Humpback whales, the gigantic, endangered mammals known for their haunting underwater songs, have been approaching New York City in greater numbers than even old salts can remember.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.— The Republican candidate for governor says entire planeloads of passengers should be turned away in New York if anyone aboard is traveling from the West African nations plagued with Ebola.Rob Astorino said on a telephone news conf...

One twin uses an iPad, plays video games, and dances to Michael Jackson tunes. The other has significant, possibly permanent, problems walking and talking.

A state senator accused of trying to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot said he didn’t do it—and if he did, he was lured into it by federal agents.

Chris Burnett is a sturgeon surgeon. The biologist wore an orange slicker rather than hospital scrubs, and his operating room was a small fishing boat in the middle of the Hudson River.