Rochester area schools, and those around the state, are off on Jan. 29 to celebrate a holiday for the first time.

Several countries mark their new year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar involving movement of the Sun and Moon.

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng has reintroduced measures to make the Lunar New Year a federal holiday in conjunction with a resolution ...

Schools did not close for Lunar New Year in the first year of the new law because the holiday fell on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 ...

Billions of people across the globe celebrate Lunar New Year, and Colorado became the second state in the country to ...

All public schools in the state will be closed Wednesday in recognition of Asian Lunar New Year. Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul signed legislation in September 2023 declaring the day a public school holiday ...

After Hochul signed the state-level bill, the Lunar New Year was added as one of the public school holidays. However, the ...

As Asian communities around the world celebrate the start of a new year, debate still rages about how to refer to this ...

Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Year of the Snake with community carnivals, family gatherings, ...

It's the first time New York students will have the day off for the Lunar New Year since a new state law was signed in 2023.