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.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong ...

The annual brush burning ban in New York State is set to start Sunday, March 16. From March 16 through May 14, residents are ...

Long Island brush fires were caused by a resident trying to make s’mores - The Westhampton Pines Fire burned approximately ...

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 arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize campus protests of the war in Gaza has sparked questions about ...

Investigators believe the initial backyard blaze started when a Long Island resident used cardboard to ignite a fire to make ...

Brush fires that burned hundreds of acres on Long Island over the weekend are under control and officials believe they now ...

A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed ...

A homeowner's failed attempt to make s'mores likely sparked this weekend's fast-moving brush fire on Long Island, Suffolk ...

Police in New York say multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were ...