With the court orders that allowed the city to seal illicit cannabis stores starting to expire, questions remain about ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively be run ...

Dan Mannarino speaks with New York City Council Member, Sandy Nurse, about the city no longer fully controlling its jail ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rikers Island will be taken out of city control, and an outside official will report directly to a federal judge. The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, ruled the remediation manager will ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

Immigrants living in New York who were unlawfully held on Rikers Island because federal immigration agents asked the city to ...

The collective proposed a series of works for the controversial Borough-Based Jails project, which has received pushback from ...

The historic step, taking control of the jails away from the city, is "a drastic and necessary measure to save lives," ...

With early voting in the June primary just a month away, voters will soon rank their top five choices for who they want to be the next mayor of New York City. THE CITY, in partnership with Gothamist, ...

Forever is Mara Brock Akil’s reimagining of the Judy Blume novel; Akil’s centers around two Black teens in Los Angeles.

The fallen mogul’s trial for sex crimes in Manhattan may hinge on the testimony of a recently revealed accuser, Kaja Sokola, ...