The Long Island Pine Barrens Society in recent months launched its “The Best of the Rest” campaign — an effort to add more than a dozen properties in Shoreham, Hampton Bays, Manorville ...

A Long Island construction bigwig is facing up to seven years behind bars for dumping loads of concrete into Suffolk County’s fire-ravaged pine barrens using a truck with a laundry list of ...

After two investigations following commercial and residential dumping incidents in the pine barrens, authorities announced the arrest of two individuals. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, Jr ...

Long Island's vulnerable pine barrens, which were recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat that could spell out yet another incendiary disaster, officials warn.

MANORVILLE, N.Y.-- The Pine Barrens of Long Island span across more than 100,000 acres -- a treasure that sits atop the island's sole source of drinking water. But more and more people are trying ...

A Long Island landscaper will pay $100,000 in a settlement reached with New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission.

Shortly before 7 p.m., New York Attorney General Letitia James tweeted about the blazes. “My heart is with our communities on Long Island as they navigate today’s brush fires, and I’m ...

The cause of the wildfires that swept through part of Long Island, New York, over the weekend is believed to have been a resident making s'mores, police said.

The fires tore eastbound into Long Island’s Pine Barrens and Westhampton in Suffolk County through Sunday before they were knocked down by emergency responders from more than 90 fire departments ...