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Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Raphael Miranda spoke to third graders at Bruno M. Ponterio Ridge Street School in Rye Brook, NY about climate change, the start of hurricane season and explained other types of weather through different hands-on experiments.

A viral TikTok challenge started in 2021 and spurred a rise in thefts of Hyundai and Kia cars.

The Yum Brands chain Taco Bell has long been a favorite for customers who don’t eat meat, thanks to its vegetarian substitutes such as beans and potatoes.

A great white shark named Jekyll appears to be summering off the coast of Long Island. The science group OCEARCH tagged the shark last December off Jekyll Island in Georgia. The male juvenile shark measures 8 feet, 8 inches long. Jekyll, who weighs approximately 400 pounds, was first spotted in the area Friday evening. By Sunday morning he was swim...

A worker at a Manhattan juice shop was badly injured in a brutal knife attack from a woman who stabbed him after not having enough money to pay her her drink, police said, even though he offered to give it to her for free.

A 32-year-old Jericho man was sentenced to 6 and half to 15 years in prison for the drunk driving crash that killed a 29 year old father of four young children. Jordan Solomon, prosecutors say, was drunk by three times the legal limit and speeding 100 mph when his vehicle crashed into Stanley Christopher Soobrian’s motorcycle in March of last&#8230...

At the moment, New York City has the worst air quality in the entire world. Mask wearing is being advised once again from health professionals. News 4’s John Chandler reports.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday’s hazy skies “were hard to miss,” and recommended school districts cancel any outdoor activities. New York City Mayor Eric Adams encouraged residents to limit outdoor activities ”to the absolute necessities.”

Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights arriving to LaGuardia and Newark airports on Wednesday due to low visibility concerns.

It’s not just your neighborhood — all over the tri-state, a thick layer of smoke is causing an orange glow and triggered an air quality alert. NBC New York has team coverage of what you need to know.

The images from the city are almost Mars-like at times, especially in the evening. Take a live look from New York City to see the orange glow that so many have been talking about.

To quote Coldplay, “It was all yellow.” Or perhaps more orange/red-ish. In case you haven’t looked or gone outside in a couple days, the New York City area has been smothered in a cloud of smoke due to wildfires in the eastern Canadian provinces of Quebec and Nova Scotia. And it didn’t get any better on Wednesday, with anoth...

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