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Police have identified the mother who was killed in a harrowing Brooklyn hammer attack, as well as the man who police believe is responsible for the attack.

Health officials said that three human cases of West Nile virus have been reported in New York City.

New legislation in New Jersey is putting a decades old debate to bed: Central Jersey is officially a region recognized by the state. According to the state, that region includes Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset and Middlesex counties. With the stroke of a pen Thursday morning, Gov. Phil Murphy literally put Central Jersey on the map by redrawing the sta...

The Democratic governor has announced Thursday she sent the president a letter requesting that the federal government expedite work permits and provide financial resources to help care for the estimated 100,000 asylum seekers who have come to the state in the last year.

A woman was charged with driving drunk on Long Island while she had four children in the vehicle with her, police said, including one child who was less than a year old.

The mother of a 5-year-old girl who went missing for hours in Queens a day ago is no longer facing charges, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The uptick of marine sightings along the New York coast this summer has caused a stir for beachgoers, but state lifeguards want visitors to know there is nothing to fear as new technology is changing the game. Cary Epstein is the supervising lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, overseeing the beach now for 26 years. This year is the first…...

Natalie Pasquarella and Dave Price help celebrate a major milestone for one of our own: Friday marks 2 decades since David Ushery started at WNBC.

A 5-year-old boy died after he was found unconscious in his family’s pool by his mother at their Long Island home, according to police.

The biggest-ever version of Summer Streets returns for the final time in 2023 this Saturday — here are the details you need to know

A man was stabbed in the head as he was riding the subway approaching Times Square, police said.

Three studies show smoke from Canadian wildfires led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms in the United States. A doctor in New Jersey says there was a flood of calls from asthmatics during the heaviest days of smoke that shrouded the Northeast with an orange haze in late spring. One study showed asthma-associated ER visits acr...

New Jersey will require school districts to offer free menstrual products for grades six through 12 under a new law Gov. Phil Murphy signed Wednesday.