The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities. Many places from the mid-Atlantic to New England were still inundated with water, with tens of thousands of people lacking electricity and hundreds still in emergency shelters — some for a ...

Urban beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret. The city's health board voted Tuesday to overturn a longtime ban on beekeeping within city limits. Previously, the city's health code had placed honeybees ...

New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near their entrances indicating how clean they are under a system approved Tuesday. The best will get an A, according to the system approved by the city Board of Health. Officials say the ...

New York restaurants proudly display reviews in the window about the taste of their cuisine. Now they'll have to have one saying whether the food's also clean. The city's health board on Tuesday approved the regulation requiring all the approximately 24,000 eateries to display letter grades in the entranceway -- anything less than A meaning not fully ...