The LIRR has fewer workers, but spends more on labor than Metro-North, says the Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog.

Catarina Lima, 72, was killed on Nassau Boulevard while walking home from a nearby shopping center.

A Sound Beach man has been charged with robbing a bank Tuesday afternoon in Rocky Point, police said.

A school employee told police that Todd Tuttle, 46, had been stalking her over a conflict involving her family and his family.

We just left the Javits Center in Manhattan after trying out a new Nintendo system for the Nintendo Switch. It is Nintendo Labo. Nintendo Labo interacts with the Nintendo Switch with cardboard and fun games and activities you download on your Switch. You have to build objects that will actually make playing on the Switch even more fun. You will get a kit and then you have to pop the cardboard shapes out, fold them and put them together. Just building these sets was so much fun.

Those looking for their own island can now buy one in Southold for less than $2 million.

Long Island MacArthur Airport is partnering with tourism bureau Discover Long Island in a joint marketing campaign in Baltimore as part of a new effort to bring visitors to the region.

The American Lung Association has given Suffolk County a failing grade for poor air quality, ranking it among the worst air in the state because of an excessive number of days with high levels of ozone, the key gaseous component of smog.

"It makes me happy that kids with special needs can do what they love."

David Flynn, the top Smithtown planner who helped shepherd the town's suburban growth, will retire in May.

Suffolk County police are on the lookout for a man who approached a teen and asked him to expose himself in Lake Grove on Friday.

Port Jefferson theater presents 'Stand Up! Stand Out! The Bullying Project.'

The new president of the Long Island Rail Road began a listening tour on his second day on the job, a day when a switch problem disrupted the morning commute.

A Merrick man was fatally struck by a car in a westbound lane of the Northern State Parkway on Tuesday afternoon, New York State Police said.

City Council President Anthony Eramo said by failing to pass the bond, which would have helped fund Long Beach through the end of the fiscal year, the city may not make payroll and be forced to begin layoffs.

The Navy also said its probe will continue and will include testing for radioactive materials and interviewing former employees.

Soil samples will be collected as part of efforts to determine the source of groundwater contamination that has been found in private wells nearby.

Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and his deputy Leonard Genova seemed to view being investigated by federal authorities as a "rite of passage" that was "not a big deal," former Deputy Town Attorney Frederick Mei testified.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said they arrested 21 people in Suffolk and 16 in Nassau over a six-day period that ended April 14.