A former New York City police sergeant died from an apparent drowning while surfing in Long Island’s frigid waters on Sunday.

Jack Shapiro, a 54-year-old outdoorsman and retired Brooklyn cop, was winter-surfing off Gilgo Beach with friends around 2:20 ...

The new version of the Water Resources Development Act includes new language that will lower the federal aid threshold for ...

didn’t take long to attract gawkers to the beach, according to a post on X by News12 Long Island reporter Kurt Semder. Authorities brought a backhoe onto the sand around 3:30 p.m. and buried the ...

Marine biologists are investigating what caused two dead whales to wash up in one day on Long Island beaches about 20 miles from one another this week. In the first case, a 28-foot female humpback ...

One of Long Island’s most significant presidential landmarks is Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, the ...

Our area poses a unique threat to the Sound: Long Island is highly developed, containing paved roads and concrete essentially ...