We interviewed Cydney Sherman, Season 5 "MasterChef Junior" contestant and self-taught chef, at The Creative Kitchen Kids Food Festival in lower Manhattan. The festival was held at the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center, an incredibly beautiful mall. The festival is for families with children of all ages and offers lots of fun activities that help kids make healthy and balanced food choices for themselves. Before we met Cydney, we enjoyed visiting the many exhibits that offered food samples and information about healthy eating. We went on the Balanced Plate Food Scavenger Hunt using a MyPlate nutrition guide diagram to collect stamps from the exhibits and earn a goodie bag full of nutritious food samples.

A $1.395 million dog house has hit the market in Aquebogue.

Voter turnout on Long Island for school elections has plummeted in recent years, with a cumulative loss of more than 100,000 participants, even as growing numbers of school budgets won voter support.

The Town of Babylon Industrial Development Agency is suing an East Farmingdale marble distributor for allegedly failing to pay $107,037 in PILOT payments, interest and penalties.

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Roads clogged with vehicles are no longer a summer-only problem, prompting officials and residents to refocus their efforts at scaling back the congestion.

Additional wells have to be tested in the Town of Islip near Long Island MacArthur Airport for a firefighter foam contaminant linked to several illnesses, officials said Friday.

Members of the Southold Volunteer Fire Department knew that, when 65-year member Bob Mallgraf left town Saturday to move to Florida, mere words would not be enough to express their appreciation of the World War II Navy veteran for his devotion to his community and his country.

Frank Catalanotto, a 14-year MLB veteran from Smithtown, was a guest on this week's Newsday High School Sports Podcast with Gregg Sarra. Catalanotto, was a .291 career hitter with the Tigers, Rangers, Blue Jays, Brewers and Mets. Nicknamed "Cat," he talks about the toughest pitchers he faced in his career and the difficult transition from high school to the professional level of baseball.

A driver lost control of his vehicle Saturday morning and crashed into a lamppost, building and statue in Mastic Beach, police said.

A Shirley man was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after his car struck a Suffolk County police vehicle stopped on the shoulder of the road in Ridge on Saturday, police said.

Rain on Mother's Day?! That doesn't seem right.

A Medford man pleaded not guilty Friday to four charges stemming from the slaying of a Mastic Beach woman whose death had gone unsolved for seven years.

Felicia Squillace, of Coram, gave birth at home on April 27, then wrapped her crying boy in a bag and tried to put him in the garbage, police said.

Suffolk County residents are advised to refrain from wading in, swimming in or otherwise coming in contact with the waters of Agawam Lake in Southampton, due to the presence of blue-green algae, county health officials said Friday.

Long Islanders will wake up Saturday to a stretch of cool, showery weather, which looks to last through Mother's Day on Sunday, forecasters say.

I was interested in collecting something, but I didn't want it to be something a lot of kids have collected. I wanted to do something unique.

Within a month, we all broke our dominant arms in different ways. Here's how we learned to cope.

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