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Medical and psychological experts said the trend toward more electronic device use is concerning because studies show that too much screen time can lead to impaired cognitive development as well as poorer academic performance.

The town board, acting as the town's Community Development Agency, said it will vote Tuesday to make an application to the town's Industrial Development Agency transferring the property's title from the Community Development Agency to the IDA.

The Senate majority leader said he will bring the bill, which would provide about $50 billion in savings to the Postal Service over 10 years and codify six days of mail delivery, to the Senate floor for a procedural vote Monday.

Nearly five months after booster shots were first approved, federal regulators have recommended a second round of shots only for the most severely immunocompromised individuals.

Vaccines are less likely to be effective in people with weakened immune systems. For them, a recently authorized drug reduces the risk of COVID-19 infection.

The devices will help determine whether electromagnetic frequency from a cable from the Sunrise Wind Farm affects fish movements.

The classes, offered by Babylon Town in partnership with the American Legion and Veterans Yoga Project, aim to help veterans and their families cope with stress and pain.

Educators credit a high economic demand for skilled workers and a more rigorous college-aligned curriculum for the spike.

Someone with a booster shot was 91% less likely to be hospitalized than an unvaccinated person after two months, and 78% less likely four months later, according to CDC data.

Long Islanders gave about $300,000 in at least 5,000 contributions split between residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties.

A U.S. district judge on Friday rejected a request for a temporary restraining order. The lawsuit argued that the mandate, which was going into effect Friday, is unconstitutionally discriminatory. 

As a teen growing up in India, Jyothis Joy was told her personality was a good match for the nursing profession. Years later on Long Island, her patients and colleagues agree.

Sahlise Cherry and two of her children will be the first to occupy one of the five homes being built in the hamlet of Riverside by Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk and the Southampton Housing Authority.

A 75-year-old man from New Mexico sent cash to an address in Southampton, thinking he was collecting a lottery prize. But police, who intercepted the money, said it was an elder scam.

Saturday will be partly sunny with a high near 53 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

A Valley Stream man died after his Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved into oncoming traffic and hit head on a school bus occupied by a driver and a child in Riverhead Thursday, town police said. 

Waverly Lucas, 48, of Wyandanch suffered a fractured orbital bone, blurred vision, a wrist injury and emotional trauma, according to a notice of claim filed against Suffolk County.

Responding officers found the victim, who had been shot eight times in the head, neck, chest and arm, in a red Honda CR-V, police said.

Eng, president of the LIRR since 2018, will be replaced by Metro-North president Catherine Rinaldi, who will lead the nation's two largest commuter railroads for the remainder of 2022, officials said.

In honor of the late Huntington Station football coach William Earl Thomas III, the Huntington Town Board has voted to name the entrance road to Manor Field Park at 90 East 5th St. "William Thomas Way."