District 2 is currently one of Nassau’s so-called "majority-minority" areas, where nearly 40% of residents are Hispanic and ...

Nine of the 12 suspects arrested in connection with the missing Patchogue teen found in Islip last month are being indicted. Court records state that Alton Harrell is facing a new top charge for first ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says this is the worst flu season in terms of total cases nationwide in 15 years.

A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation's third such ...

To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been ...

President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the ...

Marco Antonio Zuniga, 27, Long Beach, a passenger in the car, died at a hospital, police said. The driver of the car fled the scene but was later arrested, they said.

President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow.

Long Islanders in onesies and bikinis took a dip in the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean off Long Beach on Sunday.

The growth of the Asian population has helped diversify the racial and ethnic makeup of Long Island, data shows.

The unusual sighting, captured last year on a video camera set up by SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Poland project coordinator Joanna Toczydłowska, has prompted the organization to collect scat ...