The number of Long Island Sound's more than 200 beaches considered safe to swim at has fallen in the past four years, and nearly 30% rate either about average or below average for swimming ...

The unidentified individual was last seen in “distress” at 7:49 p.m. at the Kings Park bluff near the Nissequogue River mouth by Smithtown Bay and the Long Island Sound. “We don’t know if ...

According to the Long Island Sound Study, some 40,000 homes and small businesses in Nassau County use cesspools or septic tanks, most of which are spread across areas from Kings Point to Oyster Bay.

A Long Island member of notorious street gang MS-13 was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in prison in connection with a quadruple murder in Central Islip in 2017. Omar Antonio Villalta, now 29 ...

A new 8-bedroom Mamaroneck house with sweeping views, perched on Long Island Sound on a private peninsula, is on the market for $18.99 million. Described by the listing as worthy of the magazine ...

This plan would remove more than 100 buoys up and down the northeast from Maine to New Jersey, including Long Island Sound ... though my boat has a GPS and a chart blotter, it’s another form ...

It is not some kind of arts and crafts project. Instead, it is an innovative way to try to save the Long Island Sound’s ecosystem. Right now, humans with Save the Sound and 11th Hour Racing are ...

Sharks are making a comeback in Long Island Sound. Here’s what to know. Oceanographic and marine biological studies that make it possible and productively harvest and compete in the global ...

Carolyn Gusoff has covered some of the most high profile news stories in the New York City area and is best known as a trusted, tenacious, consistent and caring voice of Long Island's concerns.

Long Islanders won’t like the sound of this. Hundreds of people have signed a petition to rename the Long Island Sound the “Gulf of Connecticut” in favor of New York’s northern neighbor.

There is an online petition calling for Long Island Sound to be renamed. "America has long ignored the greatness of CONNECTICUT! Such as being the pizza capital of the WORLD!!!," the change.org ...