Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Supervisor Peter Barber ran through a list of recommendations based on his reading of the plan, which ranged from updating data and photographs in a number of places to some larger issues on which the ...

His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan invited a few of the faithful for breakfast before the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Jokes about the Pine Barrens abound. But visitors willing to look closer will find a place steeped in nature, history and ...

Cape Cod teeters on a precipice, its sandy soils parched by a Level 2 Significant Drought persisting since August 2024, with rainfall deficits of 3.8 to 6 inches threatening the ...

Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

A New Jersey woman has been missing for nearly a year after taking a weekend camping trip. Danielle Lopez’s family should have celebrated her 38th birthday during that time. She was last seen walking ...

The Lower Hudson Valley and other parts of New York are under an early burn ban ahead of a statewide ban that starts Sunday, March 16.

By Stephen J. Kotz A series of small brush fires that hopscotched their way from Manorville east culminated in an explosive ...

A recent study combining data from more than 76,000 surveys from 35 monitoring programs across the country found butterfly ...

There may not be a Jersey Devil, but a lot of strange occurrences happen in the large southern section of New Jersey known as ...