Tag: Long Island Sound

With our waterways plagued by pollution and overdevelopment, our generation faces unique challenges.

This big fish-shaped sandbar we call home inspired a surprising amount of music artists over the years, judging by the number of songs that reference Long Island!

Last January, eight-term Long Island Congressman Steve Israel shocked the Beltway by announcing he was leaving the House of Representatives. Now, a year later,...

Field trips to Vanderbilt Planetarium, bonfires on Montauk, Virginia from Billy Joel's "Only The Good Die Young"—there are certain things you'd only know if you grew up on Long Island. Here are 25 of them.

New York State will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to block the agency’s approval of plans to dump dredged material in the Long Island Sound, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.

“It’s a life. I’m not going to let him drown. He was out in the middle of nowhere, shivering and freezing, so we all said ‘We just can’t let it drown.’ It was the right thing to do.”

“We generally do not get reports of sightings in Long Island Sound.”

Marine biologists urged boaters to stay at least 150 feet away from the whale, which was last seen Monday off Port Washington.

It's about time the Shoreham nuclear plant turns into something that could benefit Long Island economically rather than just be a burden on the utility bill.