The New York City Health Department says two people have now died in connection with a Legionnaires' disease outbreak on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The department confirmed the second death late ...

New York-area residents should brace for a rough Saturday evening as a line of severe thunderstorms threatens to bring damaging winds, heavy downpours, flash flooding — and possibly isolated tornadoes ...

Hudson County Executive Craig Guy is using a small, $570,000 loan to develop plans for transforming a set of publicly owned parking lots in Jersey City into 700 new apartments, including over 200 ...

New Jersey wants some of that green. After the World Cup final is played on a natural-grass field at what FIFA has temporarily rebranded "New York New Jersey Stadium," the soccer association plans to ...

According to the National Weather Service, Friday morning’s relatively clear skies will be short-lived. By Friday afternoon and evening, more of the eerie smog that blanketed the city on Thursday will ...

The Health Department announced the first death in the ongoing outbreak linked to dozens of water-cooling towers.

As the Trump administration pushes a plan to rebuild Penn Station, officials are also eyeing ways to increase service at the Midtown train hub before a new set of rail tunnels are built beneath the ...

The air has been hazy. The sun was hanging red in the sky. New Yorkers have been searching for respite from the Canadian wildfire smoke that’s been invading our lungs — but getting inside isn’t always ...

Con Edison should have done more to secure the area around a Midtown Manhattan manhole that a woman fell into, causing her death, her family said in a lawsuit filed this week. Donike Gocaj, 56, ...

Climate change has caused wildfires in Canada to grow more frequent and more intense, which creates a viscous cycle as the blazes pump more carbon into the atmosphere.

A summer prep program meant to improve racial diversity at the city’s elite specialized high schools is itself lacking, data from the education department shows. Last week the department released ...