Skip the Hamptons crowds and head to Long Island’s North Fork and Shelter Island for spring wineries, beach walks, paddling, seafood restaurants, and boutique hotels.

Warmer weather has melted our frozen waterways​, but that's giving rise to unusual hazards. The unusually cold winter​ uprooted docks, and sent debris into the bays and the Long Island Sound.

HARTFORD — The bridge between Long Island and Connecticut has been a monumental, some might say fanciful, vision that has ...

New York City area waterways gave British forces a strong position in key Westchester faceoffs against American troops in the Revolutionary War.

Life is being breathed into the Long Island Sound. The shared New York-Connecticut waterway has reached its lowest levels of toxic, inhospitable “dead zones” in nearly four decades — and could mark a ...

The Long Island Sound reached a big milestone in reducing pollution and becoming more suitable for marine life in 2025, according to local environmental groups. During the summer of 1994, about a ...

Dozens of school districts on Long Island are trying to figure out what to do next after tests found excessive lead levels in some of their drinking water at their buildings. The New York State Health ...

Environmental advocates are hailing new findings that show that hypoxia in the Long Island Sound is at its lowest level in nearly four decades, according to the Long Island Sound Partnership. Hypoxia ...

When a Connecticut-based housing developer proposed a $50 billion bridge across Long Island Sound recently, he garnered a flurry of local media coverage. Given Long Island’s cul-de-sac geography and ...

The Long Island Sound, which stretches into the open mouth of the Atlantic Ocean, provides Connecticut’s most important ecological habitat with over 600 miles of diverse coastline that are home to ...

Nearly $12 million in grants were awarded Tuesday to fund stormwater management, habitat restoration and efforts to reduce nitrogen pollution, along with other related projects along Long Island Sound ...

Once a summer paradise, Lake Ronkonkoma is in trouble, and it has nothing to do with Native American folklore. Locals say saving it will take unity — and urgency. On a bright summer morning, sunlight ...