Nearly 230,000 teachers and administrators statewide, excluding in New York City, were paid nearly $17 billion during the 2020-21 school year, according to data reported to the New York State Teachers ...

In Rockville Centre, a south shore village in Nassau County, the sports fields bustle with youth soccer and lacrosse teams and the restaurants and bars downtown attract lively crowds. The bells ring ...

Public education employees statewide, excluding New York City, were paid $18.5 billion during the 2022-23 school year, according to data reported to the New York State Teachers Retirement System ...

The proposed addition of a third track to the Long Island Rail Road’s Main Line will not only aim to ease the commutes of a half-million LIRR customers, but will also mean a facelift for several ...

The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic ...

Grumman, the Bethpage aerospace giant, knew as far back as the mid-1970s that its toxic chemicals were contaminating area groundwater, but it kept secret crucial information that could have helped ...

There were 162,253 last names recorded 100 times or more by the U.S. Census Bureau during their latest count in 2010. You can search through this database to see if your name is among them. The Census ...

Real estate agents on Long Island and across the nation have helped tens of millions of people buy and sell houses. They’ve helped shape communities and let buyers achieve the American dream of ...

The segregation of blacks and whites has been embedded on Long Island as firmly as the Meadowbrook Parkway. Heading north from the South Shore bayfront, the six-lane road divides overwhelmingly ...

Long Island’s largest and most complex mass of groundwater pollution begins as two contaminant concentrations 50 feet below ground in Bethpage. One starts from the western portion of the old Grumman ...