Diane Baillargeon will take over as president of Seedco, the $28 million community development group founded 17 years ago.

Queens activists are staging a candlelight vigil and rally tonight in response to a recent hate crime attack on a Sikh couple.

Food Stamp recipients who lost food during last week’s blackout have ten days to apply for emergency assistance to replace it.

An estimated 40,000 former food aid recipients may settle a suit against state and fed agencies that seized thier tax returns to cover food stamp overpayments.

The city’s pension costs will account for more than 12 percent of spending by 2007, the IBO says.

The Bush administration closed an annual scientific conference on HIV prevention by declaring that promoting abstinence and monogamy are the best way to stop the epidemic.

An new FCC rule would bar all companies, including nonprofits, from sending unsolicited fax advertisements.