Unofficial summer is here — whether you're headed to the Rockaways or Orchard Beach, here’s what a surf teacher, boat captain and beach bar manager want you to know before you go.

Governor Kathy Hochul announces $325 million in grants to support New York State's water infrastructure improvements, targeting public health and economic development.

B rad Lander, the New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, is sweating through a June heat wave on a Gowanus street corner, gesturing at two huge sewage tanks under constr ...

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Bergen, Norway, has been building one of the world’s most advanced trash systems in its 955-year-old city center.

Lawmakers in Albany say sewage sludge, or waste collected in homes and factories that's used as a fertilizer alternative, ...

Collectors claim they serve people who don't exist, yet regulators rarely bar repeat offenders from the industry.

By Patrick Kingsley* Two feet wide and less than six feet tall, the tunnel led deep beneath a major hospital in southern Gaza ...

Bronx activists are fuming that a proposal aimed at opening up the notoriously polluted Harlem River to swimming won’t do ...

A Q&A with NYC Public School Superintendent Alan Cheng on the role of AI, accountability, multilingual support, and more.

In a tiny room to which the tunnel led, the floor was stained with blood. It was here, according to the Israel Defense Forces ...

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