New York City and the state will enact several new laws in 2026, primarily pertaining to employment, health care and consumer ...

Among them, benefits for minimum wage workers, cancer patients and parents of young children. Also, a change to child abuse ...

Meanwhile, a series of New York City local laws taking effect Jan. 26 and March 9 will overhaul rules for delivery workers, ...

A wide range of new state laws will take effect in 2026, bringing changes that impact workers, students, renters and ...

New laws are taking effect across the country on Jan. 1. In Hawai'i, there is now a new tax on tourists that will fund ...

Across the country, new laws dealing with artificial intelligence, healthcare, the climate, and a variety of other areas are ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation in December requiring hospitals and nursing homes to establish workplace violence prevention programs. Under the law (S5294B), facilities must implement a ...

New York State will phase out the catch of horseshoe crabs in its waters for bait and biomedical use over the next four years ...

A legal fight over how New York schedules local elections just took a new turn. A coalition of political parties, local governments, candidates, and voters has filed an amended federal complaint ...

A federal judge has given a green light to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver’s licenses without having them ...

The New York Attorney General’s office has called for a law requiring all police and sheriff’s departments in the state to ...

As New York pursues aggressive renewable energy targets, conservationists concerned about the impacts of a solar project on ...