Santa Claus

NORAD said even a pandemic wouldn’t disrupt Santa’s schedule.

A Silverton, Ore. Santa Claus is still safely visiting with kids before he heads back to the North Pole from inside his bubble.

A Santa in Silverton, Oregon, has ditched the mask and jumped inside a bubble in an effort to bring joy for the Christmas season.

In a CNN interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci told some curious kids that he visited the North Pole himself and administered a coronavirus vaccine to Santa.

A Santa parade and photo-op in Georgia last Thursday may have exposed up to 50 children to COVID-19 after Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus later tested positive for the virus, NBC News reported.

The World Health Organization says Santa Claus is immune from COVID-19 and will deliver presents on Christmas, but stressed that the children of the world physically distance themselves from others and listen to their parents.

The holiday season is upon us, but it may look a little different with all the “Santa-tizing” this year. The mall Santa and other holiday traditions have been completely eliminated, transformed into contactless experiences or gone completely virtual as we follow CDC COVID guidelines. But just how different is it for those on the other side of the table —…

The United States Postal Service has launched its 108th annual USPS Operation Santa, which allows the public to grant wishes of children and families in need of holiday gifts.

For more than 100 years, thousands of children in need have been helped through USPS’ Operation Santa. The documentary “Dear Santa” takes an inside look at what kids from all over the country ask St. Nick and how anyone can help make their dreams come true. The director, Dana Nachman, joined LX News to talk about which wishes touched her...

A diver dressed as Santa Claus has taken up residence at the Tokyo Aquarium for the Christmas season.

The emotional toll caused by the pandemic is jumping off the pages in the deluge of “Dear Santa” letters now arriving at a post office in southwestern France that sorts and responds to your mail from around the world.

The holiday tradition of visiting Santa Claus at the mall is just the latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. But as malls cancel their in-person events, out-of-work Santas are moving to online platforms to continue the Christmas tradition virtually. And for many families, that’s turning out to be even better than the real thing.

For two decades the spirit of the holidays has shown bright from Joseph DiMartino’s house on Staten Island.

Every year, one man turns his driveway into a winter wonderland full of lights to raise money for children battling cancer, and does it as a way of honoring his wife who died on 9/11. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Santa Claus is coming to the mall — just don’t try to sit on his lap

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.

Santa Claus was on his way to deliver presents to the good boys and girls with special needs at the Seton Foundation for Learning when his sleigh broke down, but got some help from members of the NYPD so those children got their presents. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

As some kids battle life-threatening illnesses during the holidays, some hospital workers decided to bring some hope to a children’s hospital, with the help of first responders. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Hundreds of people in candy cane-colored suits gathered at the bottom of a mountain in the Angeles National Forest Sunday morning to ride the chairlift together, up to the top. Once there, the throng zoomed down the snowy slope at Mountain High Resorts. One woman bundled up in the familiar getup laughed and trudged back up the mountain with her…