A drought in the northeast United States, combined with high winds, is creating record-breaking numbers of wildfires with dangerous smoke conditions in the New York metropolitan area and beyond.

Penny's sister, Jacqueline Penny, and childhood friend, Alexandra Fay, told the jury that the defendant had a reputation for honesty, compassion and empathy among his family and friends in West Islip.

New York City on Monday issued its first drought warning in 22 years after months of little rain — and will restart the flow ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A man carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, killing two people and critically wounding a third without uttering a word to his victims, ...

The New York Fire Department responded to a scaffolding collapse in Manhattan early Monday morning that sent three people to ...

Councilmember Joann Ariola and Local 2507 President Oren Barzilay joined WNYC's Tiffany Hanssen to discuss longer emergency ...

The Garden State has high standards for massage therapists, but what about the actual businesses that they operate in?

More than 20 years after 9/11, hundreds of families still wait for word of a missing loved one, as the NYC Office of Chief ...

The significant increase in brush fires in New York City has led the FDNY to establish its first Brush Fire Task Force. The task force consists of fire marshals, fire ...

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker announced the creation of the department's first Brush Fire Task Force on Sunday, which will be comprised of fire marshals, inspectors and tactical drone units.

A pint-sized production with a big heart and hugely talented cast, "Little House on the Ferry" finds the gay in everything.