A Hempstead woman died Saturday afternoon following a fire in her apartment, authorities said.

If Saturday felt like late summer, Sunday will feel like early spring with a cold and cloudy slide into Memorial Day.

In the days before Memorial Day's pause to remember the graves of America's war dead, James K. Green, 79, trudged among weathered tombstones that dot a tree-shaded hillside outside of Cold Spring Harbor, and pointed to the graves of black Civil War soldiers buried there during the long era of segregated military graveyards.

The city is in the middle of six days celebrating how on May 24, 1668, Joseph Carpenter purchased land in what is now Glen Cove from the Matinecock Indian tribe.

The three towns in Nassau County all showed growth from 2016 to 2017, but population in six of Suffolk's 10 towns dropped, the bureau's estimates show.

High school basketball season may be over but an innovative hoops season is getting under way at schools across Long Island.

Long Island officials and educators want to fight gangs and help at-risk kids by building trust between students and schools.

As dawn broke Saturday morning, volunteers were waiting at Long Island National Cemetery to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Suffolk County police arrested a man Friday night in Wyandanch for driving with 21 license suspensions, authorities said.

Lighthearted, loving and giving, Amanda Abbate only stood a few inches past 5 feet, but the radiance she emitted could envelop everyone around her.

Riverhead firefighters extinguished a condo fire that forced residents and neighbors to evacuate early Saturday morning, police said.

Long Island law enforcement officers kicked off sobriety enforcement for the long holiday weekend with 10 arrests at a checkpoint Friday night into Saturday morning in Patchogue, police said.

A Centereach man sold duplicate tickets Friday to a Billy Joel concert for $350 to undercover officers, Suffolk County police said in announcing his arrest.

Jurors entered the holiday weekend without rendering a verdict Friday as they weighed the federal corruption charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano for a sixth day.

Suffolk County health officials have expanded an ongoing survey of water quality in private wells near the East Hampton Airport to include another well in Wainscott.

The Riverhead Town Board remains split on whether to require the backers of a $40 million land deal for the Enterprise Park at Calverton to submit certain financial documents that could make or break the deal.

Welcome to Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial launch of summer on Long Island.

Elite performers at Friday's rehearsal for the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach soared, tumbled, hammer-headed, rolled, dove and just basically awed their record audience.

Residents are advised to refrain from wading in, swimming in or otherwise coming in contact with the waters of Roth Pond at Stony Brook University because of the presence of blue-green algae, Suffolk County health officials said Friday.

A Centereach man was charged with felony drunken driving after he was pulled over with his 14-year-old daughter and two of her friends in his car, police said.