Eight months ago, I announced with more or less mock solemnity that the city of Yonkers needed to burnish its image with a new marketing strategy. "It's time to change the 'brand,' " I wrote in a Sept. 20 column.

The aging and overcrowded school buildings of Yonkers are in such disrepair that school officials want to create a public-private partnership that would renovate the city's schools and potentially transform school construction across the country.

Empire City at Yonkers Raceway served about 7 million patrons last year, and only 40 of them misbehaved so badly that they were arrested.

The police department will be on the lookout for drivers who don't buckle their seat belts as it participates in the "Buckle Up New York Click It or Ticket" mobilization from May 21 through June 4.

This weekend the Beach Party Stage at the Bamboozle Festival held some killer acts, and one of them you didn't want to miss was newcomer Outasight's 8 P.M. set. Hailing from Yonkers, New York, the singer and rapper has been making waves with his hit song "Tonight Is The Night" and the recently released "Now or Never.".

Troopers charged 17 motorists with drunken or drugged driving after recent traffic stops and investigations in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, state police said.

YONKERS — The feuding between the Yonkers Parking Authority and a mayoral administration set on dismantling it intensified this week when the mayor’s appointee to the authority board questioned its plan to challenge the city in court.

The John Jay baseball team advanced to the Section 1 Class A quarterfinals with a 17-3 win at top-seeded Yonkers on Friday. The 16th-seeded Indians (10-11-1) play at ninth-seeded Byram Hills today at noon. John Jay trailed after one inning, 3-2, but scored four times in the top of the third to lead 6-3, and blew things open with nine runs in the fifth.

YONKERS - After years of painful cuts, the city schools chief has proposed a $515.6 million budget with no new teacher layoffs or program reductions next academic year. But his plan also keeps in place deeply unpopular cuts to sports, Pre-K and pupil-support services the district enacted this school year to help stem its budget woes. At a hearing tonight at Yonkers Montessori Academy ...

Police in Yonkers are investigating an unauthorized breach of the city's computer system.