While some say the end of the Las Vegas Sands casino deal is a win, the Nassau County executive said there's interest from ...

Wildfire smoke wafting up from New Jersey is imperiling air quality in New York City and on parts of Long Island, according to an official alert lasting through midnight Thursday.

Growing up in the 1960s and 70s in Uniondale and Hempstead, one entomologist recalled hundreds of cicadas clinging to tree trunks, singing their persistent buzzing, whirring mating songs.