New York teens could soon see stronger protections from online predators and harmful AI tools, along with expanded mental ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants every 10th grader across New York to take the Teen Mental Health First Aid course to help them spot ...

Legislation would expand age verification requirements and disable AI chatbots on social media, while also offering mental ...

New York is seeing a record number of hospitalizations from the flu, and it could get worse. There were 4,546 people hospitalized with the flu for the week ending Dec. 27, the New York State ...

Governor Hochul signs a NY bill requiring social media platforms to display warning labels about their addictive nature to ...

In an effort to improve mental health and safety among New York youth, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced new proposals at Hamburg ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Friday granting sweeping access to COVID vaccines across New York — in a political jab at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ...

New York state will end its Essential Plan health insurance program, which covers 1.7 million low- and middle-income New Yorkers, due to a loss of $7.5 billion in federal funding. The change, which is ...

New York's plan would end Essential Plan coverage for about 17,000 people in Westchester County. In Monroe County, nearly 16,000 would lose health coverage they had previously had under New York's ...

Out of 26 health inspections conducted in Orange County last month, seven had critical violations, 12 had no violations, and ...