Fallen power lines and toppled trees, casualties of a late-winter storm, draped across LIRR railroad tracks.

The storm snarled Wednesday's rush hour in near-blizzard conditions, knocked out power to thousands and caused train delays.

Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini is training his prosecutors to share more evidence with defense attorneys, in an effort to avoid ethical failures so serious that five murder cases were dismissed in the past year.

Three months into her term, County Executive Laura Curran is between a rock and a hard place in trying to make a deal on addressing inequities in Nassau's property assessment system.

The Franklin Square student accused of threatening his high school on Snapchat was released to probation Wednesday and ordered to stay away from a school administrator he had menaced as part of the incident, officials said.

Transforming what once were "barren mudflats," native grasses are being planted again at Sunken Meadow State Park in Smithtown, an advocacy group said on Tuesday.

Passengers will be able to travel to North Carolina and return to MacArthur Airport the same day.

The infrastructure plan would largely be funded by rolling back some of President Trump's tax breaks for the nation's highest earners.

Two Suffolk County legislators, both with experience fighting fires, jumped into action when, during a meeting at the county government office, a car in the parking lot burst into flames.

Recreational anglers may get a longer fluke season this year, but commercial fishermen are facing a 2018 quota cutback of more than 42,000 pounds of the locally important fish.

All westbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway at Exit 51 have reopened after a jackknifed tractor trailer forced a 25-minute shutdown Wednesday evening, Suffolk County police said.

Voters in the Springs school district on Tuesday approved a $23 million plan for upgrades, improvements and expansion at the K-8 school.

The Village of Lawrence has agreed to be a "twin city" with Ma'ale Adumim, a city on the West Bank outside Jerusalem.

An Indianapolis-based solar energy company wants to develop a 1.2-megawatt solar farm in Springs at the site of a former East Hampton Town brush dump.

There were no serious injuries in an accident Wednesday morning that temporarily closed the eastbound Sunrise Highway service road in North Patchogue, police said.

Food pantry officials say they will stay at the Gillette House to provide stability to the people they serve while the town makes fixes.

Police said he walked into a Lowe's store in Commack, loaded a shopping cart with a bunch of merchandise, then used receipts he'd taken from a garbage can outside the store to return the items -- and get cash.

This year, the family will be crowned "Knights of the Bald Table."

Moving the horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Belmont Park in Elmont is one of the top policy priorities of Long Island's largest business group.

Long Island's second nor'easter in less than a week was expected to deliver snowy, rainy conditions, along with gusty winds and minor-to-moderate coastal flooding, forecasters said.