New York lawmakers are set to weigh a bill that would increase penalties for mask-wearing creeps even as Gov. Kathy Hochul appears to have abandoned the effort she’d backed as the city saw a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul ducked any mention of a clamored-for ban on wearing masks in public during her State of the State Tuesday — a notable omission that drew condemnation from a potential election ...

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., made an urgent appeal for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reinstate a ban on face masks, pointing to “sympathizers” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) while doing so.

The bill, which is widely supported by Jewish advocacy groups, is partly a response to increases in masked antisemitic ...

Kathy Hochul, a Democrat ... The demonstrations have overwhelmingly been peaceful, though mask-wearing is very common among participants who are wary of police surveillance or other repercussions.

Gov. Kathy Hochul this morning announced that bird flu has arrived in the New York Metro area, with a total of seven cases reported so far in poultry. As a precaution, she ordered a one-week shutdown ...