Pennsylvania now lags well behind many other states when it comes to renewable energy investment and output. A farmer and an entrepreneur say farmland can reshape the state’s energy economy.

Top MTA brass was grilled Monday morning by members of the New York City Council on the agency’s proposed $50 billion capital plan.

Heavy rain and strong winds battered the tri-state area Friday, flooding parts of New York City and New Jersey within minutes and prompting up to 4-hour delays at tri-state airports.

Police in Paterson, New Jersey, are trying new ways to work with the community with the goal of building trust. Pat Battle reports.

There appears to be no end in sight to the government shutdown, and 2 million New Yorkers who depend on federal vouchers — like food stamps, housing and school breakfasts — are about to feel the impact. Adam Kuperstein reports.

Authorities are looking into whether the New Jersey man who died at the hospital after going on a livestreamed rant inside a police station may have had spinal meningitis, sources familiar with the investigation say. Katherine Creag reports.

Tammy Kilgore raised the giant claw of a John Deere excavator high in the air, then slammed it down on the roof the house where she had spent nearly her entire adult life. The shingles crunched, but not much else. So she did it again, and again — each time taking a bigger bite with the mouth-like claw, until the...

The push for pot hit the stairs of City Hall in Manhattan Thursday.

Former Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Sunday he’s a whistleblower who was fired within hours of meeting with the FBI about city hall corruption.

In a social media post, the Chicago Teachers Union has announced it has reached a tentative deal with Chicago Public Schools, but says that a “return to work” agreement has yet to be reached in the ongoing teachers strike.

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

The city has announced a settlement that prevents floating digital billboards in New York City waters

During the last few months of 2014, Lorraine Evans’ voice began to grow increasingly hoarse.

Now that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has stamped a tentative expiration date on his long-shot presidential campaign, some New Yorkers are wondering whether the Democrat will recommit himself to leading the nation’s largest city or spend his last two years in office nursing grievances and seeking new distractions.

The New York City PBA is calling for the resignation of NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill and for the state governor to remove Mayor de Blasio, after the PBA delegate assembly unanimously approved resolutions of “no confidence” in the two, the police union announced Wednesday.

Eric Garner’s relatives asked a court Tuesday to force New York City’s mayor and police commissioner to answer questions under oath

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s relationship with New York City’s police force was destined to be rocky. He took office promising to overhaul how the city’s 36,000 officers interacted with the public, especially people of color.

While the NYC mayor endorsed the decision, a police union boss is calling for de Blasio to be fired and for a no confidence vote for NYPD Commissioner O’Neill. NBC 4 New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

Mayor de Blasio is trying to make amends Thursday with a few dozen children who missed out on weeks of summer camp fun because their community center in East Harlem housing was overrun with rats and maggots.

The mayor said he was sick to his stomach not only over the conditions, but how the situation at the kids camp was handled. Now the children will get Mets tickets, Broadway tickets, and even get to stay overnight at a museum. NBC 4 New York’s Melissa Russo reports.