New York’s transportation law needs to be adapted to give local officials the right to regulate loud compression braking.

New York’s First Congressional District vote this fall between Bridget Fleming and Nicholas J. LaLota will be in the context of an election year in which democracy itself is at stake.

Bike lanes matter — a lot.

Avoiding the leaf litter and damp grass where up to a thousand or more tick larvae lurk is the best strategy this time of the year.

When I navigated off the interstate, I knew exactly where the graveyard would be with Kerouac’s grave.

One of the major thrusts in our founding documents, as I understand them, was to shield this democratic republic from autocracy.

For years my grandson had been writing in the brown leather visitors’ book after every summer stay at our beach house. Then one day he stopped.

The latest real estate action here.

Pleasure, praise, and pains in the neck, it’s all here in the letters section.