Kids can get hands-on at events with music, activities and fun.

Eastport-South Manor seventh-grader Peter Grogan drew inspiration from his school's shark mascot to create the winning entry in a contest to design the district's new logo.

Three Long Island teams are regional winners in a competition that challenges students to imagine a technology that might exist in 20 years.

They say it takes a village to raise a child -- but we think it takes an island.

Kids can climb into the driver's seat of emergency vehicles and work the sirens and lights.

Frontier Airlines has several changes on the way for routes to and from Long Island MacArthur Airport, including a suspension of service to Minneapolis and Detroit -- as well as the return of some flights to Florida.

Hookah lounges and stores that sell electronic cigarettes will soon be banned from opening near many public places in Smithtown.

A Bayport home features a dining room ceiling that came from a church rectory. It is on the market for $915,000.

A chef testified that his company was poised to begin providing food to emergency workers in the wake of superstorm Sandy, a contract ultimately awarded to Harendra Singh.

A Bellport man accused of killing five people in a Valentine's Day crash while fleeing police in a stolen vehicle faces upgraded charges, according to court records.

Police are searching for the driver of a white pickup truck that crashed into a utility pole around midnight Wednesday on Montauk Highway in West Sayville, knocking out electrical service in the area.

A former North Amityville man freed from prison in February after murder charges against him were thrown out gave notice that he intends to sue Suffolk County, its police department, and the district attorney's office.

Acting Family Court Judge Jeffrey Arlen Spinner was reassigned to state Supreme Court Thursday after his 4-year-old grandson was removed from Spinner's custody when his daughter was charged criminally with feeding the child a marijuana-laced brownie.

An attorney has admitted stealing more than $750,000 combined from a former law firm co-worker and two former clients, prosecutors said.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat who took office Jan. 1, has yet to reach out to the county legislature's Republican leader, Richard Nicolello, who publicly berated her administration for misleading GOP lawmakers and warned they would be skeptical about her future requests.

The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office on Thursday swore in eight chaplains, the first time in its centuries-long history to establish the post.

A federal judge ruled Thursday in favor of Nassau County and its financial control board, upholding the board's decision in 2011 to suspend raises for about 7,000 unionized county employees.

A state Supreme Court judge has tossed a lawsuit by Brookhaven Town against LIPA and PSEG Long Island over giant steel poles on Eastport roads, calling the topic "moot" because the work was largely complete by the time its suit was filed.

Expired and leftover medications can be dropped off Saturday at nearly two dozen sites on Long Island as part of a nationwide effort to get unused medications out of home medicine cabinets.

Federal investigators are probing the death of a man who was "pulled along" at the LIRR's Lynbrook station platform by a moving train earlier this month.