New York City and Kiryas Joel are planning a 15-mile pipeline that could supply backup water when needed by Orange County municipalities that use the city's Catskill Aqueduct. The new water main would ...

KIRYAS JOEL - Village leaders and community groups issued a joint statement on Tuesday rebuking a local doctor’s predictions about the spread of the coronavirus and urging him to stop posting videos ...

KIRYAS JOEL - In a small conference room on the second floor of this village's shopping center, two government boards are said to hold the meetings at which members deliberate, decide policy and ...

KIRYAS JOEL — As many as 1,000 homes could be built on a corner of Kiryas Joel that abuts Woodbury in two projects that would be among the first housing developments to result from the village's ...

KIRYAS JOEL - The rows of new apartment buildings taking shape on a hill overlooking Route 17 for the past four years have begun to hum with life. For about two months now, families have been moving ...

A rabbi and another man have been charged in New York City in a plot to kidnap and murder a man so his wife could be divorced consistent with her religious beliefs. FBI agents conducted raids Thursday ...

Imagine if you were a parent of a special-needs child. State and federal laws guarantee you the right to a free, appropriate public education, so you send your child to the local public school. In ...

The Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in New York has become what is said to be the first official haredi Orthodox town in the United States. Kiryas Joel, a village of over 20,000 Yiddish-speaking Jews ...

The administrator of the New York village of Kiryas Joel, home to members of the Satmar Hasidic group, reportedly earns $216,000 a year — more than all but three other government employees in a ...

KIRYAS JOEL, New York (WABC) -- Fire has destroyed a building that housed a synagogue and two families in a Hasidic community in the Hudson Valley. Kiryas Joel Fire Chief Joshua Blumenthal says nobody ...