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New York’s governor and New York City’s mayor made one more plea for people to abandon plans for in-person Thanksgiving festivities. Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a final plea Thanksgiving Eve urging New Yorkers to not travel for the holiday and celebrate only with your household. “Even in this hyper political moment, this is the one thing everyone agrees on,”...

NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

Andrew Siff reports on the latest in the fight against COVID-19.

The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated — cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance

Parents from Staten Island and their representative on the New York City Council filed for a preliminary injunction Friday in an effort to reopen the city’s public schools closed this week by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Council Member Joseph Borelli said Saturday city leadership failed to provide adequate education through remote learning, making the city’s decision to halt in-person...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says he’s uncertain as to whether he will be able to avoid another total shutdown as his state’s COVID rates soar to May highs. He’s hopeful as the prospect of an effective vaccine draws ever closer. But Murphy says he’s confident in at least one thing for sure. “The next two or three months...

When it comes to keeping NYC businesses open, Gov Cuomo seemed somewhat more optimistic than Mayor de Blasio, who believes things like indoor dining and gyms will close shortly after Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, schools in Westchester County are confused about staying open after being declared in yellow zones. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda and Marc Santia provide team coverage.

The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city is shutting down streets in certain COVID hotspots — and requiring proof of residence for those traveling past curfew — in yet another effort to curb soaring rates of viral spread. The state’s governor, meanwhile, says a full shutdown could still be on the table at some point. Tracie Strahan reports. .

Andrew Siff, Marc Santia and Brian Thompson have team coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City schools move all-remote indefinitely as of Thursday after the city hit Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 3 percent rolling positivity rate threshold a day earlier; there is no timeline set for an in-person return.

Today in New York City you can have dinner inside a restaurant. You can go to a salon or barbershop. You can visit museums. You can’t send your child to public school. Parents were left in anxious limbo for a week as the city kept inching closer to the mayor’s 3 percent positivity rate closure threshold. It eventually hit...

Parents were left in anxious limbo for a week as the city kept inching closer to the mayor’s 3 percent positivity rate closure threshold. It eventually hit that Wednesday, according to city data. Now families once again are scrambling to ensure their kids have the tools they need to learn fully remotely indefinitely — and to ensure someone will be...

A parents’ group that held a rally Saturday against school closure planned to deliver a petition Thursday at City Hall. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that New York City schools will switch all-remote Thursday — and until further notice — after hitting his 3 percent rolling positivity rate threshold Wednesday following nearly a week of teetering on the brink. “We’re going to fight this back,” de Blasio said. “This is a setback, but it’s a setback we will overcome.” It…

New York City schools will move all-remote Thursday, the mayor tweeted Wednesday. The announcement came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrapped up a news briefing in which he said NYC could soon become an orange zone. NBC New York’s Adam Hardning reports.

New York City Schools to close starting Thursday and shift to all-remote after city reaches 7-day positivity rate average of 3%. News 4 has team coverage.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that city schools will close Thursday after citywide 7-day positivity rate reaches 3%.

Hundreds of thousands of New York City public school parents await what appears to be an almost certain fate in the shutdown of in-person learning, days after Mayor Bill de Blasio told them to have an alternative plan at the ready. That warning from the mayor came Friday, as the city’s seven-day rolling positivity rate came the closest to...

NBC New York’s Andrew Siff and Brian Thompson provide the latest details as New York City tries to fight back a second wave, and four cities in New Jersey adopt new, stricter measures.

The mayors of four New Jersey cities in the state’s hardest-hit Essex County have agreed to impose a 24-hour curfew on all nonessential business if COVID cases continue to rise. NBC New York’s Phil Lipof reports.