The state and the guards' union struck a new deal to end the strike this weekend, but it was contingent on at least 85% of ...

Panagis is one of dozens of Mediterranean monk seals, or Monachus monachus, that have been nursed back to health by Greece’s ...

Exceptions could be granted to students faced with a "major life event," such as a critical illness or death of a family ...

A botched attempt to make backyard s’mores caused wildfires that burned hundreds of acres on the eastern end of New York’s ...

The Long Island brush fires that injured two firefighters and damaged two buildings were started by a person cooking s’mores, ...

ALBANY — State Corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III said Monday that the 22-day strike at prisons statewide is ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine Barrens, ...

Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday.

Investigators have determined that the brush fires that burned more than 400 acres of Long Island’s Pine Barrens over the weekend were caused by a family’s backyard bonfire while making s’mores. Fire ...

The wildfires began accidentally when someone in Suffolk County tried to light a fire to make s’mores, officials said. They ...