A New York judge has upheld a Long Island county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities.

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used to store power for electrical grids, but some localities are concerned about fire risks.

Billy Joel’s beloved motorcycle shop on Long Island, New York, is closing down after nearly 15 years of offering fans a free peek at his personal collection of dozens of bikes.

President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot.

A New York City suburb has become the latest flashpoint in the enduring debate over the place of Indigenous imagery in American sports.

In 2010, police searching for a missing woman began finding human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway near New York’s Gilgo Beach.

A woman and her child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach were identified by police Wednesday, nearly three decades after the double homicide.

Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

Brush fires on New York's Long Island fanned by high winds have picked up quickly.

A New York region once synonymous in the culinary world for duck may lose its last commercial farm.

Mysterious drones have been reported flying over the eastern United States in recent weeks, sparking speculation and concern over who is flying them and why.

The father of the victim in the fatal New York City subway chokehold case has sued defendant Daniel Penny as a Manhattan jury continues deliberating.

New York State Police have launched a criminal probe into a trooper who claimed he was shot and wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway last week.

The former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States has brought him to New York.

Nassau County officials say social media reports that explosives were found in a car near former President Donald Trump’s New York rally on Long Island just days after the second apparent assassination attempt on him are false.

It’s a 2024 election battleground where millions of dollars are being spent and some of the biggest names in American politics are sure to pop up.

On New York's Long Island, former CNN anchor John Avlon and scientist Nancy Goroff are facing off in a primary election for a congressional seat that Democrats hope will help them take control of the House.

Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island,” the Irish novelist’s follow-up to the acclaimed immigrant tale “Brooklyn,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick.

A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement.

Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management are upping their offer to acquire Macy’s in a deal now valued at $6.6 billion.

Arkhouse Management is nominating nine people for Macy’s board of directors, igniting a proxy battle after the department store operator rejected a $5.8 billion takeover offer from the investment firm and Brigade Capital Management.

A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000.

With George Santos out of Congress, the special election to fill his seat has been set for Feb. 13.

In what appeared to be an incident of road rage, the teacher shouted an anti-gay slur and made a threat of sexual assault.

A Long Island architect has been arrested in connection with three of the long-unsolved killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.

Eleven sets of remains were found on a stretch of highway in Suffolk County when police were searching along Ocean Parkway for Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old sex worker from New Jersey who vanished in 2010.

Dee Snider has been a heavy metal singer, a Broadway actor, a radio DJ, and a TV voice-over artist.

The pilot of the business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, the fighter jet pilots reported, according to three US officials briefed on the matter.

Rapper Fetty Wap has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for his role in a New York-based drug-trafficking scheme.

A Long Island nurse has been charged after she was caught on video allegedly picking up a two-day old baby and slamming him face-down into his bassinet.

A proposal to create more affordable housing statewide has run into howls of opposition in one of the birthplaces of the American suburb.

David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, has died.

A huge new commuter rail terminal built in caverns beneath New York City’s landmark Grand Central Terminal received its first regular passenger trains Wednesday.

Freshman Donovan Clingan had a career-high 21 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 5 UConn over Long Island University 114-61.

An Afghan Sikh family of 13 has found refuge in the diaspora community on Long Island.

Rapper Fetty Wap has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy drug charge that carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence.

Climate scientists say the new spending package that President Biden just signed will trim future warming a bit.

Rapper Fetty Wap has been jailed after, prosecutors say, he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in a pending federal drug conspiracy case.

The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year has been sentenced to a year in jail, in keeping with a promise the judge made when the man pleaded guilty in May.

Authorities say that several roads remain closed but that power is being restored around where a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames on New York's Long Island.

The rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested in New York City on federal drug charges.

There’s currently an outbreak of legionnaires disease in Long Island, New York, and one person has since died from the illness.

Federal agents have raided the offices of a New York City police union whose leader has clashed with city officials over his incendiary tweets and hard-line tactics.

A bull that escaped from a farm on Long Island and eluded searchers for two months has been captured.

London's Old Vic Theatre is reopening at full capacity for the first time since the pandemic began.

Henri is now a hurricane.

New Englanders bracing for their first hurricane in 30 years are hauling boats out of the water and taking other precautions as Tropical Storm Henri barrels toward the Northeast coast.

An escaped bull has eluded capture for several days on Long Island despite attempts to lure the roaming animal with grain and a cow in heat.

Police say an employee shot three workers inside an office at a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing a manager.

The 64-year-old father of rapper Nicki Minaj has died after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in New York, police said. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, FIle)MINEOLA, N.Y. – A 70-year-old man arrested Wednesday in the hit-and-run death of rapper Nicki Minaj’s father stopped briefly to ask the injured man if he was OK but didn't call for help, police said. Charles Polevich faces charges of leaving the scene of an incident and tampering with physical evidence in connection with the death last week of 64-year-old Robert Maraj on New York's Long Island. In interviews, she said Robert Maraj suffered from drug addiction and was abusive toward her mother, once setting fire to their house with her inside. Robert Maraj called his daughter's claims “exaggerated.”

A man walks by the offices of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Rockville Centre, N.Y. The diocese filed for bankruptcy on Thursday because of financial pressure from lawsuits over past sexual abuse by clergy members. The Diocese of Rockville Centre fought the law in court, arguing it was unconstitutional. Jeff Anderson, a lawyer for 73 people suing the Rockville Centre Diocese over alleged abuse, slammed the bankruptcy filing as “strategic, cowardly and wholly self-serving." He said that employees and vendors will be paid and that parishes and schools are separate legal entities not covered in the bankruptcy filing.

Smithtown, NY Residents in one Long Island town are sprucing up their yards, but in the process are making life extremely difficult for municipal workers. Families staying home due to COVID-19 are cutting trees and clearing heavy branches with abandon, or hiring tree-trimming companies, many of which are simply hauling the stumps into the street and leaving them for inundated town workers. And, again, that is a code violation in Smithtown, town Supervisor Edward Wehrheim said. Smithtown officials are contemplating legislation that would impose a $500 fine on companies that dont finish the job and clean up the trees. Because of this uptick in that debris in the road, we are looking at our code, to change it, Wehrheim said.