New Year's Eve

New Year’s Eve 2020 was a far and away different experience amid the pandemic compared with the crowded excitement of previous years. But the ball still dropped, and the iconic spectacle was still a thrill. Watch the livestream above all night long to be part of New York City’s Times Square celebration (and to see the cleanup afterward) even...

New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget

In the final hours of 2020, a year that has been the most difficult in generations, we take a look back on the year that was.

News4’s Aimee Cho reports from Sherman Circle with a look at how some local neighborhoods are planning to ring in 2021.

Countries close to the international date line, including Australia, China and Taiwan, began to ring in 2021 with fireworks shows.

If ever a year’s end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it

If there was ever a time NOT to stress out about ringing in the new year alone this is it. For once no worrying about that overcrowded New Year Eve’s party or that awkward midnight kiss. This is the year to curl up with a good book and watch the Times Square Ball drop from the comfort of your...

Workers have installed nearly 200 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration.

Many of us will spend New Year’s Eve at home. News4’s Megan McGrath has tips and ideas for an appetizer buffet.

La Scala, a gourmet Italian eatery on 434 N. Canon Dr., reportedly placed invitations in carry-out bags to gauge its customers’ interest in a “speakeasy”-style party, but when word got out on social media, Beverly Hills officials stepped in.

As a health and wellness coach, I’ve learned about the importance of a vision board in many trainings. But since I’m not a huge arts and crafts person, I never really incorporated a vision board into my own routine or into that of my clients. Except for last year, when I made a vision board on a whim that...

The upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “a virtually enhanced celebration,” the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.

Fido and Spot may not have to cower under the bed this summer when fireworks and thunderstorms hit. The first prescription veterinary medicine for treating anxiety over loud noises — a widespread problem that can send dogs running away in terror and harm both themselves and property — will soon hit the market. Veterinary medicine maker Zoetis Inc. of Florham...

Looking for ways to ring in 2020 in the DC area? Tommy McFly has some ideas.

Pope Francis has apologized for swatting away the hand of a woman who tugged his arm as the head of the Roman Catholic Church greeted pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve. In video of the incident, a woman reaches out, grabs his hand and then jerks him forcefully toward her. In his impromptu remarks Wednesday, Francis...

A look at New Year’s celebrations in five major cities around the world.

2020 is being rung in around the globe. More than 1 million people descended on Sydney Harbour to see fireworks despite the wildfires ravaging other parts of Australia. In Hong Kong, revelers as well as pro-democracy protesters came out to usher in the new year. Russia held the world’s longest New Year’s celebrations, spread across 11 time zones. Samoa’s New...

A visibly indignant Pope Francis had to pull himself away from a woman in a crowd in St. Peter’s Square after she had grabbed his hand and yanked him towards her. The pope in his new year’s wishes to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday apologized, saying he had lost his patience with the woman.

See what it looks like right now at the Crossroads of the World.