Long Island News from the Long Island Press

Education advocates have formed a petition urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign recently passed legislation that would create an oversight panel to monitor the troubled Hempstead School District. 

“About 90 percent of our graduates are gainfully employed within six months of graduation,” says Dr. John Nader, who assumed the presidency of Farmingdale State College three years ago.

Long Island will lose one of its two hyper-local cable TV news stations when FiOS1 News goes off the air this fall as Verizon FiOS pulls the plug on its answer to Altice's News12.

Ten Years After plays My Father’s Place, Extreme rocks The Paramount, and much more to see and do this week on Long Island!

OpEd: Long Island volunteers are clearly better judges of how to protect their community than Manhattan executives will ever be.

Mission Taco debuted in Huntington, Long Island Pekin comes to Babylon, and Organic Krush is expanding with multiple locations.

With August 17 officially designated as Clear the Shelters Day, it’s the puurfect time to bring home a new cat or dog.

Take 5: New gear to help you be a better you.

There are lots of local events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, but these four acts coming to Long Island played the original festival.

As one stands at one of Montauk’s many scenic spots, staring out into the seemingly endless Atlantic Ocean, it truly feels like you’ve reached the end of the world. And honestly, that’s just fine. There’s nowhere else you’ll rather be at that moment.

The park’s owners founded the nonprofit Helping Hands Foundation in 2013 as a way for the Adventureland team to give back to their patrons, have communities come together, and have LI reach its full potential. 

As soon as the state Child Victim’s Act went into effect, survivors’ attorneys filed the cases seeking justice for hundreds of decades-old allegations of abuse, many of them on Long Island.