A Queens dentist was arrested this week for filing $300,000 worth of allegedly fake Medicaid reimbursements, including some that claimed he performed dental procedures while he was jet-setting on a European vacation.

Over 25,000 Queens residents have lost access to federal food assistance programs over the past year — and elected officials said more could lose the benefit once new cuts go into effect this week.

Two Queens men had their somewhat unlikely friendship spoofed on Saturday Night Live during the comedy sketch show’s season premiere over the weekend.

Streets, sidewalks and subway stations across Southeast Queens were inundated with several inches of floodwater as a September nor’easter bore down on the East Coast over the weekend.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin helped Thomas Sullivan nearly flip a Queens Assembly seat from Democrat to Republican in 2022. Can this year’s Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Blakeman, give Sullivan the same boost, plus a little more?

Nearly two years after a social worker first alleged that correctional officers on Rikers Island regularly locked up detainees suffering from mental health issues for weeks or months at a time – cutting them off from healthcare, programming and other people in custody – the debate over the existence of the practice, known as “deadlocking,” continued during a City Council hearing Wednesday.

The Queens County Bar Association celebrated its 150th anniversary inside the halls of Queens Supreme Court, a courthouse that has long been connected to the local bar.

President Donald Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday they have agreed to move an ambitious plan to build 12,000 homes in Queens at Sunnyside Yard to a “new level.”

A 20-year-old man died in Department of Correction custody inside Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday.

Queens officials want an East Elmhurst office complex to stop immigration agents from using its parking lot as a staging area.

“In my practice, I have seen how a decision made in a moment can change the course of a young person’s life. “

“Community-based alternatives to incarceration and post-release reentry programs are proving every day that public safety and decarceration are not competing goals.”

“Families are being presented with a false choice: Send your children to a brand-new, $92 million facility, or continue using an aging building that has been allowed to deteriorate.”

“With the mayoral elections coming up, it's important that we seek out representatives who will do right by their constituents and abolish Rikers once and for all. “

The Oklahoma-based Williams Transco company is proposing a pipeline through lower Hudson Harbor again. New York first rejected this pipeline in 2020, and now we must do it again. What’s good for a Tulsa gas company is terrible for Queens’ health and our wallets.

“For a corporate center that hosts more than a thousand employees every day — including staff at the Department of Corrections, Skanska, numerous firms and the headquarters of the Queens Chamber of Commerce — this change is more than an inconvenience. It is a step backward for our borough’s economy.”