Today, Staten Island is home to 19 firehouses, and more than 17,000 FDNY members continue to carry out the life-saving mission of the department, which began 160 years ago. Scroll below for vintage ...

Hackensack bans the sale or use of second-use lithium batteries and outlaws their charging or storage in certain spaces.

A New York City reporter says a former aide to Mayor Eric Adams gave her a potato chip bag filled with cash following a ...

Some City Council members had questions about fire safety but agreed to draft new rules on single staircases to space for ...

The City Council Wednesday instructed the Department of Building and Safety and attorneys to develop an ordinance that would allow the construction of single-stairway six-story apartments in Los ...

Dozens of rip current rescues have been conducted in North Carolina, and popular beaches in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and ...

A fifth person has died amid Central Harlem's legionnaires' disease outbreak, New York City health officials said, as they ...

Swimming will be prohibited at all New York City beaches Wednesday and Thursday as Hurricane Erin is threatening to bring ...

At 9 a.m. Tuesday, about a dozen members of FDNY Ladder 3 & Battalion 6 in Union Square shook Chief Steve Marsar’s hand, ...

An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a residential home in Queens sparked a ...

A fifth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City. The outbreak in Central Harlem has sickened dozens since it began in late July and the latest death ...