Long Island environmental experts say the plan is a good start, but lacks some specific details they were hoping for.

The lake consistently yields largemouth bass over four pounds,” DEC officials note in trumpeting Artist Lake’s fishing.

Repair work on a smaller leak, has uncovered an incursion of groundwater into the sewage system at the Gun Hill Bus Depot.

A Long Island man used a can of spray paint and a model boat to viciously attack another man during a violent home invasion, Nassau County police announced on Tuesday, April 15. Christopher Collins, ...

A 44-year-old woman was fatally struck by a vehicle while crossing a Long Island roadway, police announced on Tuesday, April 15. Judith Aime was crossing Jerusalem Avenue near West Drive in North ...

This is the town Fitzgerald once called home that inspired Jay Gatsby’s new-monied playground, West Egg, located across the glittering waters of Long Island Sound from Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine.

An unidentified body was found in a body of water in Island Park on Tuesday, April 8, according to the Nassau County Police Department. The man, whose death is of an “undetermined nature,” was ...

From North Shore to North Fork to Long Island Sound and the barrier islands, NBC New York covers Long Island news, weather, traffic and more. Prosecutors said the teen had been acting out in ...

A 15-year-old boy was arrested after police said he fatally stabbed his grandmother on Long Island. The boy is also accused of stabbing his mother, who was injured in the incident. He's been ...

The Long Island Aquarium has launched a poll to name four baby North American river otters born earlier this year to the residents of its Otter Falls exhibit. The ‘otterly’ adorable pups — two males ...

Long Island Sound is central to life on the ... which both leak nitrogen into the Sound. Excess nitrogen in the water causes harmful algal blooms, reducing oxygen and killing other plant and ...