For Star subscribers: Rep. Raúl Grijalva, House Natural Resources Committee chair, wants feds to consider halting mining company's grading for the Copper World project as a Clean Water Act violation.

The leases were among 47 issued by the federal government in 1982 and since then the tribe has been fighting them, arguing they violate numerous federal environmental and historic preservation laws.

The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association (MVLA) has selected Mount Vernon’s Robert H. Smith Senior Curator Susan P. Schoelwer as its new executive director of Historic Preservation and Collections.

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The industry counters the environmentalists' claim that preservation measures ought to be supported because of the aesthetic, scientific, and ecological benefits that would result. Hundreds of ...

Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug at the curious phenomenon at Long Island's Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School.