Just nine months after the city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) dropped plans to use explosives in construction at the Jerome Park Reservoir, in response to a lawsuit by community residents, the agency is again proposing to blast, angering local activists and possibly triggering a second lawsuit.

Former State Senator Efrain Gonzalez, who represented the entire Norwood News coverage area, pleaded guilty last Friday to defrauding three Bronx nonprofit groups and using more than $500,000 worth of state funds for his own personal use.

"Rent increases will drive out our middle class, making the whole city poorer," said Congressman Eliot Engel in a statement. "We need rent policies that encourage the middle class to come here and stay, not be driven out by exorbitant rents."

Bronx Congressman Jose E. Serrano and his son, Bronx State Senator Jose Marco Serrano, are joining Governor David Paterson and other elected officials in supporting New York State’s efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.

A listing of public and community meetings for our readers in the northwest Bronx, primarily Community District 7.

If a new law is passed, it could increase the number of doctors in the Bronx and at the same time, federal lawmakers say, aid President Obama’s plan for universal health care.

On the day police were buying back guns from local residents at a half dozen Bronx churches, a man, who asked to be identified only as A.J., explained how easy it was to purchase a gun on the street.

“I could bring you to a spot where you could buy a gun right now,” he said. “Guns are easier to get than weed.”

A small stretch of Valentine Avenue in Bedford Park is the latest hot spot in the 52nd Precinct, following a shooting last weekend and a recent series of brazen graffiti hits.

Fordham Road, the largest shopping district in the Bronx, has two new faces. They’re young, smart and Dominican.