Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency a day earlier after four separate fires broke out across large swaths of Long Island’s Pine Barrens region, prompting closures to the highway and ...

Federal agencies have removed topsoil from burned areas but will not test it for contaminants. So scientists and residents ...

Arson could be the cause of several wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large smoke plumes into the air, officials ...

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency on Saturday, March 8, as several wind-driven brush fires ...

Two commercial buildings were damaged and two firefighters suffered minor injuries, Suffolk County Fire Coordinator Rudy ...

The last of the wind-driven wildfires that had stretched hundreds of acres across eastern Long Island, prompting the New York governor to declare a state of emergency, was extinguished by Sunday ...

Ukrainians have marked International Women's Day using flowers to show solidarity with women during war. It came as the country continued to sustain heavy aerial attacks from Russia. Two commercial ...

The lines are drawn in the state prison strike, with state officials making their third and final offer Thursday to prison workers who walked off the job illega ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- The battle against massive, wind-whipped brush fires raging across parts of Long Island's Pine Barrens entered its second day on Sunday, after flames prompted a ...

The state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...

Governor Hochul has declared a State of Emergency in Suffolk County A MULTIPLE BRUSH FIRES, WHICH BEGAN sATURDAY AFTERNOON ...

Towns and communities in Long Island, New York, were on alert Saturday after brush fires spewed thick smoke into the air. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in Suffolk County as ...