City Hall is pushing for a way to make the fire department not only more diverse, but also more New York based.

Southeast Queens’s community board has turned to a long time activist to lead their group.

City Hall is joining veterans to seek a better hospital in St. Albans.

The head of southeast Queens’s community board was unexpectedly removed by a city councilman.

A Queens politician whose personal battles against obesity have been in the spotlight in the past wants to keep children from leading unhealthy eating habits by targeting fun incentives for fast food.

The plan to save the character of South Jamaica is one step closer to reality.

The city’s public advocate wants to turn the heat on landlords who don’t provide their tenants with basic needs during the winter.

A New York City Councilman has a plan to bring more minorities to the city’s bravest.

Two Council members say Queens is not getting its fair share of the pie when it comes to financing the borough’s libraries. Now they are finding a new way to get that money back.

Help is on the way for 200 workers who will lose their jobs once a Jamaica factory closes.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Gifforts and others may have been shot in the southwest, but New York leaders say lessons can be learned locally from the massacre.

Virtually every sector of Queens was struck by Mother Nature’s parting blow for 2010.

A series of mistakes made in this year’s ballots have cost the city’s head of the Board of Elections his job.

The sweet time has ended for a community staple in southeast Queens.

The city is exploring a new eco-friendly method to solving Queens’s flooding problem.

A problem with an abandoned house in Bellerose got the attention of two competing politicians.

A who’s who of New York’s political figures gathered to mourn the death of a Jamaica councilman.