holidays

With the holiday season quickly approaching, experts are suggesting creating a family or community bubble as the safest way to enjoy this year’s holiday celebrations while reducing your risk of COVID-19 and the flu. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker shares a holiday bubble checklist that your holiday group can adopt in the days and weeks before your gatherings to ensure everyone...

Need ideas to make your Halloween festive in spite of the pandemic? Lifestyle expert Limor Suss shared her best tips with us, including ways to have fun with your food, throw a virtual party or play games outside.

Before each holiday season, Walmart gathers hundreds of kids at a convention center near its Arkansas headquarters. The young testers try out lots of toys and pick those they would like to get from Santa. That shapes the retailer’s list of top toys and determines which ones it orders in abundance. This year, the company mailed toys to several dozen kids...

The Easter Bunny visited essential workers and rode with firefighters to be able to wave to children who have had to stay home due to COVID-19..

Easter is approaching, but with new positive coronavirus cases every day and social distancing, families are not able to come together as usual. Myles Miller reports.

Chef Eric LeVine shares his St. Patrick’s Day recipes with Gus Rosendale.

Fire has gutted a well-known home for the holidays on Long Island. Greg Cergol reports.

An Atlanta couple said they came home from a winter vacation to find their house had been ransacked by an unusual suspect: a squirrel. Kari and Dustin Drees returned to find their house in disarray with floors scratched, baseboards chewed, and squirrel feces all around. Reports say a squirrel had fallen down their chimney and became trapped in the house,...

“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,”...

Residents in a Rockland County town witnessed what they’re calling a Hanukkah miracle on Wednesday when a 5-year-old girl walked away with scrapes after she was trapped underneath a school bus. A heart-stopping video, first obtained by Yeshiva World News, of the incident shows the little girl running in front of a school bus at the same time the...

Video shows a 5-year-old girl getting hit by a school bus, and the driver then taking off, never knowing he hit someone until later. NBC New York’s Ken Buffa reports.

Almost two million gifts are expected to be returned in the time after the holidays, coming after shoppers spent nearly $32 billion in the weeks beforehand. Now some stores are offering deals to get shoppers returning items to pick up some new items too. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Residents of a southern New Jersey town are wondering who left an anonymous and snarky note telling a family their Christmas lights display was sorely lacking

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.

With the holidays in full swing, business is not as usual. Companies are wrapping up the year with office parties, airports are abuzz with homeward bound travelers and most 9 to 5’ers have at least two days off this week. What better time to slap an “away” auto-reply on your email, close your laptop and unplug completely for a few…

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

A new survey found that most people assume they will make at least one return this holiday season

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 from all over the world (and some from pretty close by) came to Manhattan to see the sights on Christmas, with nearly as many people coming to Rockefeller Center on Wednesday as the tree lighting ceremony. NBC New York’s Ken Buffa reports.

One of the best gifts to give this holiday season is to help others. Citymeals on Wheels is preparing more than 20,000 meals on Christmas Day – thanks to volunteers – in order to feed hungry New Yorkers. While many have the holiday off – Christmas is actually one of the busiest days for the non-profit organization as volunteers work…