ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that the state will end a COVID-19 mandate requiring face coverings in most indoor public settings, but will keep masking rules in place in schools for now. The mandate requiring face coverings in most indoor places, like grocery ...

ALBANY — Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett cast doubt Tuesday that the department plans to review the state’s pandemic policies in nursing homes, disappointing Republicans who have insisted on a third-party investigation and report on controversial practices adopted during ...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that the state will end a COVID-19 mandate requiring face coverings in most indoor public settings, but will keep masking rules in place in schools for now. The mandate requiring face coverings in most indoor places, like grocery ...

The post-holiday surge of COVID-19 cases in Franklin and Essex counties has been on the decline recently, but both counties are still seeing higher numbers of new cases of the illness each day than in earlier in the pandemic. In the past month, there have been five new COVID-related deaths ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When New York City’s COVID-19 rates spiked last December due to the emerging omicron variant, humans weren’t the only mammals affected. The highly infectious variant also hit the white-tailed deer population on Staten Island, the most suburban of the city’s five ...

Researchers from the state Department of Health will focus on studying COVID-19’s lasting effects on a person’s health after recovery to assist medical experts across the globe as the virus emerges with potential to impact multiple organ systems. People infected with COVID-19 have reported ...