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Long Island’s positive Covid-19 cases have been steadily rising once more as vaccination rates slow and the Delta variant of the virus spreads.

We caught up with Massapequa native Daniel Baldwin to hear about his new documentary, My Promise to PJ, and its upcoming screening at the Long Beach Film Festival.

Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 to 77.3 years, the lowest level since 2003, primarily due to the deaths caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a U.S. health agency said on Wednesday.

The New York Islanders can look forward to dropping the puck next season at the UBS Arena, located at Belmont Park in Elmont, as completion of the $1.1 billion venue is on track to open as planned for the Islanders’ 2021-2022 NHL season.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer fumed Sunday over New York state’s slow release of a “trickle” of Covid-19 relief funds helping tenants and small landlords get back on their feet.

The Town of Hempstead Buildings Department’s former deputy commissioner admitted stealing more than $59,000 from the Cedarhurst Republican Committee, of which he was also executive leader.

The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into nursing homes in New York and two other states regarding their Covid-19 response, dealing a blow to several Republican lawmakers who had demanded a probe.

Unlike other teams — Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, or even Crosby and Hope — Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis brought a madcap, unpredictable dynamism to the stage.

Japan's global superstar Naomi Osaka, who grew up in Valley Stream, on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity.

The most new restaurants in recent memory have opened in the past year on Fire Island, a side dish of the coronavirus pandemic sizzling the food industry.

Do you prefer ooey-gooey cookies, or a warm slice of pie? Well, all you sweet-tooths out there no longer have to choose, thanks to the cookie-pie business taking Long Island by storm: BakedwithGrace.

Nassau County Police Department is increasing its coastline marine and aerial patrols to watch for sharks after two shark sightings on the south shore this week, County Executive Laura Curran announced on Friday.