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By most measures, Thursday looks to be a miserable day – cold, rainy and breezy. The precipitation is just what the tri-state has needed for weeks.

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By most measures, Thursday looks to be a miserable day – cold, rainy and breezy. The precipitation is just what the tri-state has needed for weeks.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener made a series of audio recordings to be sent to NBC News around the time of the planned bombing, the complaint says.

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Gautam Adani and others are accused in the New York indictment of paying Indian government officials $250 million to secure solar energy supply contracts.

Lynda Baquero with the details for NBC New York. 

New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologize for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make The View co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs.

New York City officials are concerned about low reservoir levels after months of little rain, saying they may postpone repairs on a temporarily out-of-service aqueduct to bring more water into the stressed system.

Tributes are pouring in for the man behind the Long Island Rail Road announcements. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports. 

Counties across the tri-state are being asked to conserve water. News 4’s Lynda Baquero reports. 

New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a burning forest in New York state. A park in Manhattan caught fire. And authorities in two states revealed criminal charges Wednesday against people accused of setting some of the wildfires that have plagued the northeast U.S. in recent weeks. The actions came as conditions...

Known for informing riders in his familiar voice “This is the train to…”, Van Ritshie died at the age of 80 after spending more than 50 years in the radio and voiceover business.

Unrelenting wildfires continue to rage across the tri-state, as firefighters slowly get a handle on the Jennings Creek Fire along the New York and New Jersey border. It’s 30 percent contained but thousands of acres are still burning. And because of the lack of rain and dropping reservoirs, New Jersey issued a drought warning — here’s what that means for...

Peanut, a social media star pet squirrel seized and euthanized by authorities in New York, has tested negative for rabies.

The National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, New York, has enshrined a new class of honorees.

Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm is paralyzed from the chest down after being thrown from a horse during a polo tournament.

Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died. She was 81. Ailey spokesman Christopher Zunner says Jamison died Saturday in New York after a brief illness. Jamison grew up in Philadelphia and trained there in ballet from a young age. When Black ballet dancers...

Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died.

An 18-year-old New York parks employee died Saturday while battling one of many wildfires burning through several thousand acres across the tri-state. Dariel Vasquez had been deployed to Sterling Forest in Orange County, which borders New Jersey’s Passaic County. He was in Passaic where the so-called Jennings Creek Wildfire was first reported on Saturday. At some point during its...