STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With leftover turkey and fixings set aside, thousands of shoppers headed to stores around Staten Island to take advantage of Black Friday sales, hoping to find the year’s ...

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring would like to remind the public that since the birds have not settled on this location as a permanent nesting spot, it is important that ...

Rockville Centre detective John Murphy, 40, was charged with a hate crime on Wednesday after allegedly harassing a phone service worker in a racist tirade on Long Island, according to officials.

The American Airlines plane crash in Washington, DC, is shaping up to be the deadliest commercial crash in the US in more than two decades after authorities revealed there were likely no survivors.

We have reached out to Buffalo Police and the Buffalo Animal Shelter to see if they have received any reports of the bear. There have been no updated sightings of the bear as of Friday morning.

Just last week, a black bear was seen walking south on the Kortum Trail in Sonoma Coast State Park, ... and then, on Saturday, near kayakers on Penny Island along the Russian River near the coast.

The birds would wake to a New Year’s feast. I thought of it as the avian equivalent of the black-eyed peas and greens that the humans in the house would be eating for good luck later in the day.

The DEC says bird flu cases have been confirmed after dozens of dead birds were found dead on a beach in East Patchogue, Long Island. The DEC has told the public that if you see a dead or sick ...

An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white buddies by bucking the tuxedo trend with an entirely black body ...

Explore the complex legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers in American history. Explore the complex history of Black Americans who enlisted in the U.S. military as a path to citizenship, a livelihood, and ...

For over 40 years, Dick Muench displayed many of his exotic birds from Central and South America at Jerry’s Foods on Sanibel. ... and she grew up greeting the parrots at the island grocery store.