A group of Westbury High School students traveled to Albany Thursday to appeal to New York lawmakers for additional funding for their district as negotiations over the state budget approached an April 1 deadline.

With March registering colder than normal -- and let's not even get into the record snowfall -- just where does that leave April?

Thirteen months after Smithtown's Public Safety Department took control of the municipal animal shelter, John Valentine, that department's chief, said the shelter had rebounded.

Long Islanders have an extra week to buy an Empire Pass from the state parks department at a discounted price, officials said Thursday.

Mild and unsettled -- that's how forecasters are describing the tail-end of the workweek, bringing chances of showers, along with high temperatures in the 50s expected to last clear through the weekend.

We took an exciting trip into Manhattan to interview Jace Norman, the star of the Nickelodeon show "Henry Danger." Jace, 18, plays the roles of Henry Hart, as well as the superhero Kid Danger on the show. He also has a new animated series that can be seen on Nickelodeon, "The Adventures of Kid Danger."

The DeClaras' 2,253-square-foot home feels larger when the party-centric backyard gets used.

Laurie and Frank DeClara's 2,253-square-foot home feels larger when the party-centric backyard gets used.

Lessons can be geared to kindergarten through high school.

A Massapequa home rebuilt in 2015 after superstorm Sandy was turned into a modern showcase of European finishes. It is on the market for $1.445 million.

Suffolk police responded to a report at a Bayport elementary school Wednesday that some students were disturbed after hearing another student's comment about a bomb, said the district's top administrator.

District's funding plan of more than $212M also includes funds for more academic services while avoiding a tax increase.

A Mattituck man faces stolen property charges after police found stolen soil, mulch, planting pots, and other items from local nurseries in his home, Southold Town Police said Wednesday.

County Executive Laura Curran Wednesday night pitched her vision of ethical responsibility, fiscal prudence and economic development in Nassau while acknowledging the fragility of the government she inherited.

Mourners streamed into a Westhampton Beach firehouse Wednesday for a wake commemorating the life of Tech. Sgt. Dashan J. Briggs, one of four members of the Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing who perished in a March 15 helicopter crash in Iraq.

Edward Mangano paid for some of his own meals and even asked that his campaign be charged for events, Harendra Singh acknowledged at Mangano's federal corruption trial.

Gregory, a Democrat seeking to challenge the GOP incumbent, says King should return $5,000 in donations from restaurateur Harendra Singh.

She's working on a three-peat.

On the seventh day

For Rabbi Dovid Weinbaum, one of the key parts of Passover, which starts Friday at sunset, is matzo, the unleavened bread eaten at seder dinners during the eight-day religious festival.