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With COVID-19 cases spiking in Massachusetts, neighboring states are issuing new coronavirus rules and advisories for people traveling to and from the Bay State. Connecticut and New Jersey have added Massachusetts to their quarantine lists. Officials in New York, meanwhile, are urging people who travel to the nearby state to use caution. Massachusetts was added to Connecticut’s COVID-19 travel...

With a recent spike in coronavirus cases, Massachusetts now meets the criteria for certain travel advisories. It was not added to New York’s quarantine list, but was added to Connecticut’s and New Jersey’s.

Bystanders helped rescue an elderly couple from a sinking car Monday after it careened into a Long Island canal

A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York has been returned after 87 years.

Danroy Henry Sr., the father of DJ Henry, a Black Pace University student and football player who was killed by a white police officer in 2010, wants the case reopened. He spoke to NBC10 Boston after celebrities asked U.S. Attorney General Barr to reexamine the case.

New York remains listed as a low-risk state on Massachusetts’ travel order, even as the state is dealing with a major spike in cases and hospitalizations. The Massachusetts COVID-19 travel order page was last updated on Oct. 3, more than 10 days ago, when Colorado, New Jersey and New Mexico were removed from the lower-risk states and the District of…

Seven states have set new single day records for confirmed cases, and the U.S. is now averaging 50,000 new cases per day.

BREAKING UPDATE: Cuomo Orders Schools in NYC Hotspots Closed Tuesday; Mayor Plans to Move Ahead With Additional Closures Wednesday New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says all non-essential businesses, public and private schools will close Wednesday in nine zip codes in Brooklyn and Queens, if approved by the state, after reporting coronavirus cases above a 3 percent positivity rate…

President Donald Trump’s son Eric is scheduled to speak via video on Monday with New York state investigators probing his family’s business practices, according to court papers filed Friday. Eric Trump has given no indication he will seek to delay the interview in light of his father’s and stepmother’s coronavirus diagnosis, which was announced early Friday, or for any other...

Two New York City teens are making Boy Scouts history by becoming the first girls to earn the rank of Eagle Scout.

Protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the verdict in the grand jury case against Louisville police officers, who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March.

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James says police footage related to investigations conducted by her office will be released to the public as soon as possible without the delay or authorization previously left up to local law enforcement involved.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is being celebrated in her native New York City with plans for a statue, landmarks lit in blue and impromptu memorials at her childhood home in Brooklyn and the high school she attended. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer and champion of women’s...

The city of Rochester, New York, is dealing with more trauma after a shooting at a backyard party killed two teenagers and injured 14 others

The chief and deputy chief of the Rochester, NY Police Department retired abruptly Tuesday after days of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head.

The mayor of Rochester says reforms are coming to the police department as community elders seek to bring calmer minds to a fifth night of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held a hood over his head

New York’s attorney general has moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude.

Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude last spring in Rochester, New York, have been suspended by the city’s mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter

A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man’s family.