Kearny

Trailers meant to be used in the Thanksgiving Day parade erupt in flames in Kearny. Jen Maxfield reports.

A raging fire erupted behind a commercial building in New Jersey early Monday, devouring about a half-dozen coach-style trailers that had been contracted for New York City’s 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade later this week. It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the blaze in Kearny, which broke out by a Lincoln Highway industrial complex shortly before 6 a.m.,...

Chopper 4 was over a wild blaze in Kearny, New Jersey, early Monday.

A man who works for the Department of Children and Family Services in New Jersey was charged on Wednesday with possessing child pornography, authorities said.

A man was attacked with a machete inside a Walmart in Kearny, New Jersey. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

As the death toll from Ida in New Jersey rose to 30 on Monday, it could increase again after the discovery of another body in the Passaic River.

The two bodies recovered this week in New Jersey have been identified by the medical examiner’s office as the two missing college students who vanished together last week amid Ida’s floods. Nidi Rana and Ayush Rana, both Seton Hall students who lived in Passaic, hadn’t been seen since floodwaters overtook their car near the swollen river during the height...

Two bodies have been pulled from the Passaic River, eight days after Ida flooded New Jersey and left four people missing. Pat Battle reports.

Another body was found in the Passaic River near Newark Thursday, just a day after a similar grim discovery was made less than 4 miles away in Kearny as emergency crews continue their search for three people missing in Ida’s floods. Two of them were college students, friends who vanished together last week. Reports of a body in the water…

The body recovered from the Passaic River may be one of four people still missing a week after storms from Ida ravaged parts of New Jersey. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A grim discovery was made a week after Idea devastated parts of New Jersey, as a body was recovered from the Passaic River, officials confirmed.

A married 57-year-old music instructor is facing charges of sexual assault of a young student he was teaching music to, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday. Fernando Valladares, of Kearny, was arrested on charges of sexual assault by sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. The charges stem from an investigation after the Bergen County Prosecutor’s...

On the first day of New Jersey’s annual bear hunt, one black bear continued to skirt Fish and Wildlife officials and local police who are trying to move the cub out of a Hudson County residential neighborhood. Residents in Kearny, a town just 13 miles from Manhattan, spotted the bear snoozing in a tree on Monday but the creature was…

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Residents in a New Jersey town may soon be able to breathe easy again after a judge ruled to permanently shut down the foul smelling landfill that has been plaguing people’s noses.

There’s a foul smell putting a damper on a field of dreams for some kids in New Jersey. Gus Rosendale reports.

Harvey Field in Kearny is regarded as the pride of this soccer-loving New Jersey town.

On Tuesday, New Jersey approved roughly $9 million in film tax credits to a Steven Spielberg adaptation of “West Side Story” and a Batman universe movie called “Joker” starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Nearly a dozen men have been arrested in a cargo theft trafficking ring that used stolen tractor-trailers to move more than $1 million in goods meant for retailers across the country to a New Jersey warehouse, where they were held until they could be sold domestically or overseas, officials said Wednesday.

A CUNY professor has been arrested, accused of selling fake course completion certificates.