A long-established animal rescue run by a Long Island couple is being forced to find a new location. CBS reports the town of Oyster Bay has ordered...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A New York town's board members have decided it's OK to boo at their meetings – but only if it's done politely. The Riv...

A middle school principal in the Freeport School District has been arrested and charged with having sex with a then-16-year-old boy he met online in 2...

If we're looking for an economic rising tide to carry all our boats, I don't see it locally just yet. I see the holes in leaking vessels being plugged, while those onboard are still carrying excess weight.

You can applaud the Riverhead Town board, but you can't boo. At least, not at its meetings in Town Hall. The town board voted, 4-1, Tuesday to adopt ...

One of Long Island's greatest and most under-appreciated assets is the Long Island Rail Road, but that asset must be put to more effective use if Long Island is to be in the economic forefront of our times.

Mary Lee gets around. Last month, the great white shark entered the surf zone in Jacksonville, Fla., causing a stir. Now, the 16-foot, nearly 3,50...

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Marine officials say two whales washed up on New York's Long Island just hours apart. One was dead and the other was later...

Graffiti, including a swastika and "obscene words," was found marked on a playground slide at an elementary school in Roslyn Heights, police said. Na...

Superstorm Sandy damaged or destroyed 95,534 buildings in Nassau and Suffolk and left behind 4.4 million cubic yards of debris, according to the lates...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I witnessed two Long Island communities, Long Beach and Oceanside, located just 1.5 miles from one another, experience very different fates. When disaster struck, Oceanside had few resources to rely on.

LONG BEACH, N.Y. -- The text from Sister Diane at St. Ignatius Martyr church was as odd as it was urgent: "A man is going to call. You must answer the...

SHIRLEY, N.Y. — A tractor-trailer smashed into several vehicles on a major highway on Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain reaction of fiery...