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Alaska Airlines flights will face delays throughout Wednesday after the company earlier requested a ground stop nationwide due to technical issues, the airline said. “This morning we experienced an issue while performing an upgrade to the system that calculates our weight and balance,” the airline told NBC News. The FAA said the airline...

An on-duty police officer was involved in a crash near the Jersey Shore that left a scooter operator dead, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said.

Fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump visited a Hamilton Heights bodega where a man was stabbed to death in 2022, a stark pivot for the former president as he juggles being a criminal defendant and the Republican challenger intent on blaming President Joe Biden for crime.

Grammy-winning Colombian superstar Shakira is bringing her world tour through New York City later this year.

Residents of two buildings were displaced by a four-alarm fire in Paterson, New Jersey on Tuesday afternoon, according to the city’s mayor. The fire heavily damaged two buildings on 18th Street, video from Chopper 4 showed. The mayor said at least 31 residents were displaced as a result of the fire. No injuries were reported and no rescues to...

Tony Soprano? Donald Trump?! Video of the New York Knicks’ recruiting pitch to LeBron James has finally surfaced, and you have to see it to believe it.

The New York City Department of Health is urging providers to be aware of a continued uptick in a potentially deadly rat-transmitted bacterial illness that can infect both humans and pets. Cases of human leptospirosis remain limited — there have been six cases reported to date in the city this year — but are trending upward. Twenty-four...

Antisemitic incidents in New York soared 110% last year, shattering the previous record and sparking deep concern, according to an Anti-Defamation League report out Tuesday. The 1,218 total incidents recorded by the ADL in New York in 2023 is the highest number ADL has ever recorded in the state and the second-highest number reported in any state a...

A man and woman were slashed in Queens early Tuesday morning by a man police said was not wearing shirts or shoes. The attack happened around 2:50 a.m. on 94th Street in the Elmhurst section of Queens, according to the NYPD. Police have not said what may have led up to the attack or if it was unprovoked, but did…

At least 19 women in nine states reportedly became sick after they got Botox, either having gotten the injections from people who were never licensed or trained to give the shots or received them in “non-healthcare settings,” including homes or spas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

As the clock ticks down to the start of congestion pricing in New York City (slated to start two months from Monday), there’s a last-ditch push to repeal the controversial tolling plan. But will the eleventh-hour legislative maneuver even work, or will it be too little too late?

Researchers from as far away as the University of Texas were in New Jersey to install a seismometer, a tool that can measure aftershocks near the epicenter and give scientists a better sense of the fault that shifted on April 5 — then delivered the area its largest earthquake in more than 100 years.

Firefighters ran into danger during a garage fire in Westchester that left several vehicles destroyed as flames ripped through a row of parked cars. Sections of the parking garage were still off limits days later. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.