Christmas

Macy’s said Santa Claus won’t be greeting kids at its flagship New York store this year due to the coronavirus, interrupting a holiday tradition started nearly 160 years ago.

The coronavirus has hit one part of the arts and entertainment world especially hard, and that’s performances of “The Nutcracker.”

The case of a former missing Long Island dog returned minutes before the Christmas holiday may finally be all tied up. Suffolk County SPCA said two people were arrested Sunday for their involvement in the theft of Bella, an 11-year-old Shih Tzu who disappeared last December. Bella’s family had reported her missing after she was last seen in the...

A Bristol, Va., man decided to put his Christmas lights back up to cheer people up during the coronavirus pandemic. “If I’m driving by, it makes me excited, so imagine what a kid is going to be like if they see this popping up,” he said.

Baby, a 15-year-old cat who was adopted after being a hospice resident at a Massachusetts animal shelter, is loving life and no longer needs medication after Bjarna O’Brien welcomed her into her family.

“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” may be slightly morbid for a Christmas song, but it’s had staying power for the last four decades. The iconic comedy song by Elmo & Patsy has been No. 1 on Billboard’s Comedy Digital Track Sales for the past eight weeks. “It’s hard to believe after all these years that it stuck,”...

At parks across the five boroughs, chipping machines are turning Christmas trees into mulch. The city’s annual MulchFest event will be held on Jan 4. and 11, allowing New Yorkers to bring their trees to a designated chipping location and bring the mulch from their tree back home. You can drop off your holiday trees at one of dozens of…

Watch a live feed of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree around the clock.

Police have arrested a man they say stole a trailer filled with toys for needy children just one week before Christmas. According to an arrest report, 50-year-old Oscar Gomezguerra was caught on surveillance video taking the trailer from St. Kevin’s Church located in Southwest Miami-Dade. Just two days after the trailer was stolen, an anonymous caller tipped off police...

Debbie Reynolds had everything prepared to celebrate Christmas 2016 with her family when her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, suffered a heart attack aboard a flight on Dec. 23, NBC News reports. Fisher died four days later, on Dec. 27. Her mother, Reynolds, passed away the following day from a stroke. Her son, Todd Fisher, blamed heartbreak for his mother’s death. Sue Cameron,...

A strong typhoon that barreled through the central Philippines left at least 28 dead and 12 missing, and forced thousands to flee their homes, devastating Christmas celebrations in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.

Christmas produces a lot of joy…and garbage. Americans produce 25% more trash between Thanksgiving and Christmas, according to the EPA. Learn what should go into the recycle bin and what might be better suited for the landfill — or swapped out completely.

Now that holiday gifts have been opened, it’s time to take a moment to say thanks with a handwritten thank you note.

Hundreds of Coast Guard recruits were paired with families in and around Cape May, New Jersey, as part of the annual Operation Fireside campaign.

While others were unwrapping presents, two sisters continued their family tradition of packaging and delivering food to families in need on Christmas. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

People all over the city stepped up to help out those in need on Christmas, volunteering to make food and give gifts to those who have fallen on hard times, or are sick at the hospital. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Reenactors will take to the Delaware River on Christmas to recreate George Washington and his troops daring 1776 crossing.

Thousands turned out to watch the annual reenactment of George Washington’s daring Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 — the first time the crossing was completed in three years.