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The city has appealed the judge's ruling in favor of a convenience store in Queens that could have broader implications for enforcement. A state judge has ordered New York City [...]

CAPTION(S): PHOTOS: Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is one of the city's largest green spaces. But the site has old infrastructure that needs to be updated to meet the challenges of [...]

Byline: Ashley Southall The city is flexing its new enforcement powers to close hundreds of unlicensed cannabis stores. Critics have likened some of the authorities' tactics to those used during [...]

The city is flexing its new enforcement powers to close hundreds of unlicensed cannabis stores. Critics have likened some of the authorities' tactics to those used during the war on [...]

The departure of Chris Alexander, an architect of legalization in New York, follows a report that was critical of his leadership. The head of New York State's cannabis agency will [...]

New York officials had said that those who jumped the line to cash in on cannabis would not be rewarded over those who played by the rules. A year after [...]

The lack of legal dispensaries and the overwhelming proliferation of illegal ones are the biggest concerns of the rollout three years after legalization. After three years of fits and starts, [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a review of the way New York State licenses cannabis businesses after calling the sluggish rollout of legal cannabis a ''disaster.'' Gov. Kathy Hochul has told [...]

Legal retailers are struggling to get their footing in the face of a much larger illicit market. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited New York City on Wednesday to drum up support [...]

Legal retailers are struggling to get their footing in the face of a much larger illicit market. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited New York City on Wednesday to drum up support [...]

Byline: Ashley Southall Surplus weed produced in states like Oklahoma is increasingly ending up in New York, fueling its illicit market and complicating the state's efforts to expand legal cannabis [...]

Surplus weed produced in states like Oklahoma is increasingly ending up in New York, fueling its illicit market and complicating the state's efforts to expand legal cannabis sales. In the [...]

The retired boxer's foray into the cannabis market in New York is a test of how far a celebrity can carry a brand. On a recent weekend, fans of Mike [...]

Byline: Ashley Southall The retired boxer's foray into the cannabis market in New York is a test of how far a celebrity can carry a brand. On a recent weekend, [...]

Regulators agreed to a settlement that would save 436 retailers from losing their licenses. The New York State cannabis board voted Monday to approve a settlement that would resolve two [...]

A new map illustrating 42 years of marijuana arrests documents the way that New York disproportionately targeted working-class, Black and Hispanic people for decades. For young Black men like Justin [...]

The 2022 Flying Spur could reach 60 miles per hour in four seconds. The couple who died inside were business owners from a town near Niagara Falls, N.Y. The car [...]

The explosion at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls sparked fears of terror. The car's occupants were local residents, and the authorities said there was no threat. Police investigators in [...]

A speeding car hit a median, took flight, then burst into flames. Bridges closed down and trains stopped running as authorities raced to investigate. The United States and Canadian governments [...]

Muhammad A. Aziz and the estate of Khalil Islam are seeking answers about why the F.B.I. withheld evidence that later cleared both men. A former member of the Nation of [...]

The New York Cannabis Control Board approved a package of regulations that included licensing requirements for distributors, dispensaries and others. Cannabis regulators in New York approved a package of regulations [...]

Byline: Ashley Southall Alex Norman's fight to protect the brand he created is part of a trend that industry lawyers say threatens small cannabis businesses. In the fall of 2021, [...]

Empire Cannabis Club is the target of stepped-up state efforts to crack down on unlicensed shops. New York Police Department officers and state tax agents raided one Manhattan dispensary and [...]

The state solicited entrepreneurs with cannabis convictions to open the first legal dispensaries, but the effort has fallen behind. When New York State began laying the groundwork for its recreational [...]

Students and teachers said in interviews that some classrooms were in disarray as more and younger students were smoking marijuana at school. Ever since Justin, a 15-year-old high school freshman, [...]

The lawsuit suggests more problems may be ahead for New York State's troubled rollout of the recreational marijuana industry. A prominent Harlem business group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking [...]

The decision lets regulators issue licenses in some of the state's most populated areas, but 18 remain on hold as judges prepare to hear arguments. A federal appeals court has [...]

The industry estimates that there could be 63,000 jobs in weed across the state by 2025, many of them in retail and hospitality. The first time Kirk Lawrence got a [...]

Roland Conner became the first person with a criminal conviction to open a licensed cannabis dispensary in New York with the state's help. Roland Conner's first foray into the weed [...]

Kenneth Woodin, a stay-at-home dad, was first in line at the cannabis dispensary in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He said he wanted to be a part of history after having [...]

Licensees will no longer be required to accept storefronts leased by the state, a move welcomed by applicants who want more control over their retail locations. New York cannabis regulators [...]

A new competition showcases small craft growers in New York who are hoping to come up with the next big strain in weed. Up a steep flight of stairs in [...]

A report from a medical cannabis trade group found contaminants such as E. coli and salmonella in some products purchased at unlicensed dispensaries. Some cannabis products sold at unlicensed storefronts [...]

Byline: Ashley Southall Shops selling weed have proliferated since the state legalized cannabis last year, thriving in confusion over their legality and a lack of enforcement. On a recent Sunday [...]

Shops selling weed have proliferated since the state legalized cannabis last year, thriving in confusion over their legality and a lack of enforcement. On a recent Sunday afternoon, Austin Garza, [...]

Cannabis regulators in New York State have said they hope to have the first retail locations for recreational marijuana in operation by the end of the year. New York took [...]

The first attack in Hudson River Park set off searches, but investigators made no arrest until two more women had been victimized. Before dawn one morning in March, a man [...]

The move affects 63 of the 150 licenses that the state planned to issue. A federal judge has temporarily barred the state of New York from issuing the first batch [...]

People who have been punished for marijuana offenses are applying to open the state's first retail cannabis dispensaries. Anytime the police approached the street in the Bronx where Hector Bonilla [...]

The New York Police Department let a suspect in a Brooklyn rape case slip through its grasp. A month later he was arrested in connection with the murder of a [...]

Mayor Eric Adams said the detective showed ''great restraint'' during a fractious arrest of the woman's boyfriend, but activists called for the officer to be disciplined. A New York City [...]

The police are investigating the officers' role in a crash that killed two men who were riding an illegal ATV amid a crackdown on such vehicles. Two New York City [...]

Charles M. Guria, who had investigated corruption and helped reform stop-and-frisk tactics, denied a news report that described inappropriate conduct. The Department of Investigation has withdrawn a job offer to [...]

Charles M. Guria will become the next inspector general for the department under a mayor who has focused on the police. A veteran city prosecutor who investigated police corruption over [...]

Letters from victims and activists drew the Justice Department's attention after city and state officials failed to act on the same complaints. By the time the U.S. Justice Department announced [...]

Muhammad A. Aziz filed the $40 million claim on Thursday, seeking redress for a conviction that overshadowed 55 years of his life. New York's criminal justice system took 55 years [...]

Inspector Paul J. Saraceno and Sergeant Keri L. Thompson of the Special Victims Division admitted to misconduct and were removed from their posts. Two former supervisors in the Police Department's [...]

Azsia Johnson, 20, hoped to be a pediatric nurse and was a doting mother to her two children, her mother said. She was shot at point blank range while walking [...]

A civil rights investigation will examine the Police Department's special victims division, which has long faced troubling accusations from people who reported assaults. The Department of Justice has opened a [...]

The legal complaints are the first to be brought by officials under a state law intended to hold firearm manufacturers accountable for gun violence. New York officials on Wednesday filed [...]