With no opposition expressed, Madison County Commissioners are expected to extend the needle-exchange program for two years through 2027. On Tuesday, the commissioners voted to consider the extension ...

If you’re going to give them the needles, you should be responsible for cleaning up after them,” a local mom told The Post.

New York City Councilmember Oswald Feliz introduced legislation Thursday to require the city to deal with discarded needles ...

Locals near a needle exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to collect hundreds of discarded syringes littering the ground. Oswald ...

Update: On Tuesday evening, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced his veto of the needle exchange law expansion passed by the City Council. More needle exchange programs could soon be allowed in ...

Update: The Denver City Council passed the proposal loosening needle exchange rules Monday night on an 8-5 vote. Mayor Mike Johnston vetoed it Tuesday evening. Denver would eliminate its limit on ...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston vetoed an expanded needle exchange program just one day after the city council passed the ordinance. Johnson vetoed City Council Ordinance 24-1791 on Tuesday.

Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness reports seeing an increase in need for their syringe-exchange program after the Maine CDC suspended and revoked a certification.

But, he wrote, the council ordinance passed in an 8-5 vote on Monday that would have allowed for a great expansion of needle exchange sites “is the wrong solution at the wrong time.” ...

First, he worried it would allow for an unlimited number of needle exchange programs. Second, he said there was no reason to move the distance requirement. Johnston called the measure "the wrong ...

DENVER, Colorado — Denver City Council passed an ordinance Monday that may increase accessibility to needle exchange services in the future. If signed by Mayor Mike Johnston, it would drop the ...