New Year's Eve

The upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “a virtually enhanced celebration,” the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.

NYE 2021 will be mostly virtual due to coronavirus and keeping the public safe, Gaby Acevedo reports.

Fido and Spot may not have to cower under the bed this summer when fireworks and thunderstorms hit. The first prescription veterinary medicine for treating anxiety over loud noises — a widespread problem that can send dogs running away in terror and harm both themselves and property — will soon hit the market. Veterinary medicine maker Zoetis Inc. of Florham...

Two men and two teenage boys face charges after a fatal New Year’s Eve shooting led to a high-speed police chase that ended when the suspects’ vehicle crashed, authorities said

A New York man was found alive after vanishing on New Years Eve at Thacher Park, surviving three days of temperatures in the 20’s

Pope Francis has apologized for swatting away the hand of a woman who tugged his arm as the head of the Roman Catholic Church greeted pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve. In video of the incident, a woman reaches out, grabs his hand and then jerks him forcefully toward her. In his impromptu remarks Wednesday, Francis...

A look at New Year’s celebrations in five major cities around the world.

2020 is being rung in around the globe. More than 1 million people descended on Sydney Harbour to see fireworks despite the wildfires ravaging other parts of Australia. In Hong Kong, revelers as well as pro-democracy protesters came out to usher in the new year. Russia held the world’s longest New Year’s celebrations, spread across 11 time zones. Samoa’s New...

A visibly indignant Pope Francis had to pull himself away from a woman in a crowd in St. Peter’s Square after she had grabbed his hand and yanked him towards her. The pope in his new year’s wishes to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday apologized, saying he had lost his patience with the woman.

See what it looks like right now at the Crossroads of the World.

Couples kissed. Others cheered and waved balloons as fireworks burst into the night sky and confetti fell to welcome the start of 2020 in New York City’s Times Square. In one of the globe’s most-watched New Year’s Eve spectacles, the crowd counted down the last seconds of 2019 as a luminescent crystal ball descended down a pole. Throngs of people cheered...

Over a million people packed America’s most famous place to ring in 2020.

Drones, bomb sniffing dogs and police officers covered midtown to make sure the biggest party of the year is safe for all. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

They come from across the country and across the world. Over a million people are in Times Square for the 2020 ball drop. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Mariah Carey’s Twitter account was hacked on New Year’s Eve allegedly by the same group that took control of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account. Dozens of tweets were posted on the hacked account, some using the N-word and others referring to the Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that took control of Dorsey’s account, among other celebrities. Dorsey’s account was hacked...

The Jersey Shore got an early jump on the New Year’s celebration with fireworks, boardwalk games and a lot of family fun. Brian Thompson reports.

Anchor Stefan Holt reports on the day’s top headlines for New Year’s Eve.

Over a million people are expected in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. Andrew Siff reports from the packed party.