Transforming what once were "barren mudflats," native grasses are being planted again at Sunken Meadow State Park in Smithtown, an advocacy group said on Tuesday.
Two Suffolk County legislators, both with experience fighting fires, jumped into action when, during a meeting at the county government office, a car in the parking lot burst into flames.
Recreational anglers may get a longer fluke season this year, but commercial fishermen are facing a 2018 quota cutback of more than 42,000 pounds of the locally important fish.
All westbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway at Exit 51 have reopened after a jackknifed tractor trailer forced a 25-minute shutdown Wednesday evening, Suffolk County police said.
There were no serious injuries in an accident Wednesday morning that temporarily closed the eastbound Sunrise Highway service road in North Patchogue, police said.
Police said he walked into a Lowe's store in Commack, loaded a shopping cart with a bunch of merchandise, then used receipts he'd taken from a garbage can outside the store to return the items -- and get cash.
Moving the horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Belmont Park in Elmont is one of the top policy priorities of Long Island's largest business group.
Long Island's second nor'easter in less than a week was expected to deliver snowy, rainy conditions, along with gusty winds and minor-to-moderate coastal flooding, forecasters said.
A proposed moratorium on ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft was tabled Tuesday night, as more than a dozen drivers told Suffolk lawmakers that ending the service would hurt their incomes and riders who have come to depend on them.
A Coram man who stole purses from three separate women walking in commercial parking lots last month was arrested Tuesday morning, Suffolk County police said.
The head of the Pine Barrens Society called for the resignation of the director of the Pine Barrens Commission as the start of tree-clearing for a Mastic solar farm highlighted a bitter dispute among environmentalists.
A pencil drawing on a classroom desk in a Queens high school last week was the source of a social media post displaying a threatening message that disrupted Long Island school districts on Monday, the New York Police Department said Tuesday.
A candlelight vigil for Scott Beigel, the teacher and Long Island native fatally shot while trying to save his students during last month's school shooting in Florida, has been postponed a week because of the nor'easter expected Wednesday.