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A wildfire burned at least 400 acres of a New Jersey state forest Wednesday, sending thick white smoke into the air and closing a Camden County road.

“While we work to determine the source of the fire and assess the full extent of its impact, Voorhees Town Center’s interior spaces will remain closed to the public,” the mall wrote April 23, 2024 on social media.

New York Yankees legend and four-time World Series champion Bernie Williams, also an accomplished musician, will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic Wednesday. Williams will perform alongside the NY Phil and its next music and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel, at Lincoln Center. The event will take place Wednesday at David Geffen Hall a...

Telecommuting, a pandemic-era novelty that has become a permanent alternative for many people, has some Connecticut and New Jersey employees of New York-based companies questioning why they still have to pay personal income tax to the Empire State. Their home states are wondering as well. Fed up with losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in...

A 21-year-old Long Island woman was arrested for allegedly fleeing the scene of a deadly accident — in a marked public safety vehicle that had just responded to the scene, authorities say. Rachel Lodice, of Jericho, was driving a 2023 Kia soundbound on Hicksville Road in Massapequa around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday when police say she hit a 2022 Nissa...

The man accused of sucker-punching women in seemingly random attacks in a span of weeks in Manhattan was arrested and faces hate crime charges, according to police.

A massive solar project is coming to a parking lot at JFK airport, but not all of the energy is going airport. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports. 

Student protesters at Columbia University have committed to dismantling and removing a significant number of tents from the West Lawn, university officials said Wednesday, citing “important progress” in negotiations overnight. The development comes hours after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, facing mounting calls to resig...

Inspections are continuing and expanding at a Long Island park after drums of chemicals were found buried under ballfields, leftover from when the land was used for aircraft production.

A suspected sexual predator is being sought by police after allegedly raping a woman inside an apartment building in Manhattan.

New rules set out by the White House helps customers receive their refund when a flight is delayed and even clarifying airport “junk” fees. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports. 

Police are looking for the suspects seen on video, all dressed in black, breaking through the front window of a high end store in Montclair to swipe designer handbags worth thousands. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A Long Island woman is being accused of not only killing a woman in a deadly drunk driving crash, but also stealing the responding public safety officers vehicle in an attempted escape. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.