Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an ...

In the David Sarnoff Pine Barrens State Forest in Riverhead, the DEC has already thinned more than 500 acres and has conducted prescribed burns on 50 acres, Cole said. Suffolk County's parks ...

Master Sgt. Barry Wood was onboard a military helicopter flying 2,000 feet above Long Island Sound when he recognized his ...

The four fires combined to torch about 600 acres across the Pine Barrens in Suffolk County, according to County Executive Ed Romaine. More than 90 departments responded to the blazes to keep them ...

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina ... igniting a fire in Eastport and another fire in the publicly protected Pine Barrens region of West Hampton, according to Catalina.

Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency for Suffolk County and a burn ban across the area as crews battled the fire in the Pine Barrens. She confirmed that multiple state ...

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the first ever Suffolk County Southern Pine Beetle Symposium will be held ...

Suffolk County officials ... factor—the Southern Pine Beetle. The invasive insect has been responsible for killing tens of thousands of trees in the Pine Barrens, leaving behind dry, dead ...

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina ... igniting a fire in Eastport and another fire in the publicly protected Pine Barrens region of West Hampton, according to Catalina.