Attendance at state parks has increased for a dozen straight years, totaling 88 million people last year statewide, surpassing last year’s total by 4 million additional visitors.

The New York State trooper who claimed he was shot during a Long Island traffic stop turned himself in to police Monday morning.

Dead raccoons found on the grounds of the William Floyd Estate on Long Island in recent weeks have prompted National Park Service officials to warn the public of potential health risks to their

A Long Island woman was sentenced Monday to between 2 and 6 years in prison for a deadly car crash that killed a volunteer firefighter in June 2024.

NEW YORK — A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway last year.

A Nassau County cop believed to be moonlighting for the Bonanno crime family allegedly staged a fake raid in an attempt to shut down a gambling parlor operated by rival Genovese mobster Salvatore “Sal the Shoemaker” Rubino, according to prosecutors and a report published by the Daily News.

NY Attorney General Letitia James sues developer David Roberts and his company for illegal land clearing and construction in the protected Pine Barrens.

The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions of birds at U.S. poultry farms and driven up the price of eggs struck the Crescent Duck Farm this week.

Dining scene additions include the Stone Goat Restaurant and Brewery, Aura Coastal Mediterranean, and NY Burger Shack.

The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner said.

It was drawn in pencil and crayon on an 8 x 11” paper. Her 10-year-old son Cooper told her it was a drawing of his school.  But Nicole Miller was puzzled when she saw that he had drawn bars over the front door.