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

More wildfires could be in store for Long Island’s East End thanks to a tree-killing beetle. A wildfire ripped through about ...

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 Department has ...

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

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said Sunday that ... Romaine recalled the devastating 1995 wildfire in the Pine Barrens, which burned for nearly 10 days. Unlike that disaster, Saturday ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency with the wildfires in the Pine Barrens. “I am issuing a State of Emergency as Suffolk County fights brush fires in the Pine Barrens.

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

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 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.