A few days after Governor Kathy Hochul announced a statewide burn ban, some parts of the North Country have gotten drier.

Staten Island, a borough of some 500,000 people connected to Manhattan by ferry and to Brooklyn by bridge, is almost entirely ...

Democrats were projected to win at least 208 House seats and Republicans 215 seats as of Friday. A party needs 218 seats in order to have the majority.

He won Suffolk for the third consecutive election and captured Nassau for the first time, becoming the first Republican to ...

Big Tupper was a popular ski resort from the 1960s through the 1990s. After it closed down in 1999, a few developers were interested in plans to develop the property, but no plans ever came to ...

As the Jennings Creek fire rages on in New York and New Jersey, officials warned the risk of fire sparking across much of the ...

A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay ...

Elliott Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother ... The choice of Mr. Zeldin, a former Republican congressman of New York, to be the next E.P.A. administrator ...

AOC’s home base is seeing red. Far-left Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents swung toward President-elect Trump in Tuesday’s presidential election by one of the ...

Additional information collected may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity maps. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general ...