About 70 local restaurants and bars are taking part in "LI Wings It Forward" to raise money for EMS and fire departments that responded to the East End brush fires.

The Maui County Council has begun scrutinizing Mayor Richard Bissen’s proposed $1.51 billion budget for next fiscal year, ...

As proposed, the exemptions that allow many apartment-zoned units on the island to operate as vacation rentals would expire ...

The State Department of Environmental Conservation plans to conduct prescribed burns on certain DEC-managed lands in Suffolk County between now and early May.

When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher.

Wildfires can ignite in remote ... they aim to help improve the health of island residents, particularly the most vulnerable among them who may have ongoing medical needs and trouble traveling. The ...

Maddie, a pit bull mix, stands in a vacant spot between plants in a Long Island, N.Y, garden. Dense garden-bed designs that ...

Famed Vancouver, B.C., enviornmentalist David Suzuki, who will turn 89 in March, is speaking up about what he sees as an imminent ecological disaster.

Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitat and remove timber litter that fuels wildfires. This year’s burn ...

Severe weather threatens the mid-Mississippi Valley and Southeast this weekend, with possible hail, and isolated tornadoes. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The downtown of Hempstead, New York State’s largest village located right on Long Island, is getting a $10 million facelift after years of economic struggles. The investment was announced Monday ...

Hundreds of homes and other buildings were destroyed in Oklahoma, as fierce winds and wildfires swept the region. transcript More than 150 blazes were burning in Oklahoma alone, damaging many ...