Asking rents run from under $2,000 a month for a small Spring Valley office to well past $3,000 in New City, and the lease terms behind those numbers matter as much as the rent itself.
The state limits how fast the tax levy — not the tax rate, not your bill — can grow, and 60 percent of a board can vote around it.
The state's School Tax Relief program still cuts thousands of Rockland school tax bills — here's who qualifies, how the local assessor's office fits in, and what changes for 2026 and 2027.
Five towns, nineteen villages, one county legislature of seventeen — here's the structure that decides who plows, who zones, and who taxes what.
New York's Freedom of Information Law gives residents a right to town, village, and county records — here's how the request actually moves once it's filed.
Five towns, nineteen villages, one county legislature of seventeen — here's the structure that decides who plows, who zones, and who taxes what.
Rockland's 17 chartered libraries are funded four different ways, and which one applies to you decides whether you ever get a ballot.
From New City civic groups to village associations in Nyack and Spring Valley, here is how Rockland's neighborhoods organize, what they can change, and how they work with town boards.
The state limits how fast the tax levy — not the tax rate, not your bill — can grow, and 60 percent of a board can vote around it.
Asking rents run from under $2,000 a month for a small Spring Valley office to well past $3,000 in New City, and the lease terms behind those numbers matter as much as the rent itself.
There's no single site listing everything happening in Rockland County. The county keeps its own calendar, and Ramapo, Haverstraw, Orangetown, and Stony Point each run theirs a different way.
New York's Freedom of Information Law gives residents a right to town, village, and county records — here's how the request actually moves once it's filed.
New York's minimum wage law splits the state into two tiers, and Rockland sits in the lower one. Here's what local employers and workers need to know before the rules change again.
Every property owner in Rockland County gets one formal window each year to challenge a town's estimate of their home's value: Grievance Day, which falls on the fourth Tuesday in May in most New York jurisdictions, according to the state's guidance on contesting an assessment .
The county budget moves on a fixed fall schedule — proposal, committee review, public hearing, and a year-end vote — and each step has a moment where residents matter.
State parks, boat launches and village sidewalks along the Palisades form a tourism corridor that feeds restaurants, outfitters and shopkeepers from Piermont to Stony Point.
Who runs the December calendar in Nyack, New City, Suffern, Haverstraw and Spring Valley — and how a small village stages a tree lighting on a budget.
The July 1, 2025 increase applies to the Port Jervis and Pascack Valley lines that carry Rockland commuters toward the city.
The state's School Tax Relief program still cuts thousands of Rockland school tax bills — here's who qualifies, how the local assessor's office fits in, and what changes for 2026 and 2027.
Metro-North's seasonal weekend ferry across the Hudson returns Saturday, May 23, running hourly until October 31, with a free Rockland bus link from neighborhoods to the dock.
Rockland County's water customers get their day in front of state regulators on Wednesday, June 24, when the Public Service Commission holds a public statement hearing on Veolia Water New York's proposed rate increase, per the PSC's hearing notice for the proceeding. The utility serves nearly all of
The county's 8.375% rate breaks down into five pieces set by the state, the county, and local governments — and a temporary cap now changes what drivers pay at the gas pump.
The state Department of Health's extreme heat guidance and its season-long heat surveillance dashboard give Rockland residents a map of who is most at risk when heat indices climb past 95 degrees.
NYSERDA added $15 million to the Charge Ready NY 2.0 program in February 2026 and relaunched the Drive Clean Rebate with $30 million in April, two levers that shape where Rockland drivers plug in.
NYSED's New York Inspires initiative replaces the test-based diploma with a Portrait of a Graduate framework, with the new rules applying to students entering high school this fall.