-
State Senator John Brooks, a Democrat from Long Island’s south shore, said he plans to retire. He cited New York’s new redistricting map as his reason for not seeking reelection.
-
Democrats in New York will face new challenges from Republicans and be drawn into interparty battles under new redistricting maps released late Friday.
-
Fairfield County residents took part in a global challenge to observe and record wildlife.
-
Long Island Republicans are declaring a win after a special master redrew New York’s congressional and state Senate district maps that had heavily favored Democrats.
-
About 300 Connecticut residents are hospitalized with COVID-19.
-
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court Southern District of New York late Monday, the Democrat-backed plaintiffs argue that throwing out and redrawing the maps violates a federal law and consent decree requiring the state’s primaries to be held in June.
-
The New York state Legislature is poised to vote as early as Monday, on a bill that would remove disgraced former Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin from the primary election ballot.
-
The decision came two days after the state’s highest court ordered the lower court to create new maps for congressional and state Senate districts, ruling that the old lines were improperly approved by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and drawn with partisan intent.
-
New York voters will likely end up going to the polls three times this year.
-
Brookhaven landfill will be full in two to three years.