The Long Island Regional Planning Council voted Wednesday to allocate $40,000 for improvements to the Long Island Zoning Atlas.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

Law enforcement agencies are still interviewing all 911 callers to rule out any possibilities, but they "strongly feel that it was accidental." ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Massive, wind-whipped brush fires are raging across parts of Long Island's Pine Barrens region on Saturday, prompting a large emergency response to control ...

The fires are believed to have been accidental, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said during a Monday news conference. Investigators believe the initial backyard blaze started ...

All but one of Norfolk's district councils are likely to push for three new authorities to cover the county - putting them at loggerheads ...

The city is due to receive $1.5 billion in federal grants for its 2025 operating budget ...

The Suffolk County Police Department released the following statement on March 10 on the brush fires in the pine barrens this past weekend: “Following an investigation by Suffolk County Police Arson ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were accidentally caused by a family’s attempt to make s’mores, Suffolk County police said Monday.

(Cheran Campbell/New York Air National Guard via AP) Firefighters respond to a brush fire in Suffolk County in New York’s Long Island on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Steve Pfost/Newsday via AP) This ...