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Dispensaries are expected to bring tax revenue to the Town of Riverhead. Cannabis sales taxes generated more than $1.8 million for the Town of Babylon, officials said in September, and the town plans to use the money to open a drug treatment facility, Newsday has reported.

“Strong Paid Family Leave benefits means New Yorkers don’t have to sacrifice financial security to be there for family in times of need,” Workers' Compensation Board Chair Clarissa M. Rodriguez said in a statement. “No one should have to choose between caring for a loved one and a paycheck.”

The union said a supermajority of workers at BlueOval SK have signed union authorization cards to launch the public campaign to join the UAW.

Queens prosecutors and state officials on Tuesday announced the arrests of five people in connection with an alleged $2 million retail theft ring operating online, in New York City and in the Dominican Republic — a landmark bust because of the first-ever use of a new law.

The Nevada-based company's traffic mitigation efforts include adding one lane on each side of a stretch of the 90-year-old Meadowbrook from the Northern State to Hempstead Turnpike and spending an estimated $20 million to build a new water well to supply the Coliseum site, homes and businesses ar

Suffolk County voters gave a boost to water quality improvement by approving an eighth-of-a-percent sales tax increase poised to inject millions of dollars into a new fund for modernized sewers and septic tanks.