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Flights are expected to resume at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma on Sunday. The Long Island Rail Road is expected to resume service Monday morning.

After more than a year of disruptions, there was a cautious optimism when students and teachers returned to classrooms last fall. Most recently, districts were caught in the middle of the on-again, off-again state mask mandate court battle.

As the omicron wave continues to subside, "We are absolutely trending in the place we've wanted to get to for so long," Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking in Melville on Friday, said she has decided to continue the mandate because, while COVID-19 indicators are improving, they still do not warrant lifting the regulation.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for Long Island, New York City and three other counties as a monster storm expected to dump up to 17 inches of snow on the Island moved in.

Pediatricians around Long Island are monitoring cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a rare but serious condition that emerges in some children weeks after they were infected with the coronavirus.

Teaching about race and racism on Long Island varies widely, educators say, but how it is perceived to be taught has been the subject of fierce debate, with some educators feeling as if they're caught in the middle.

Long Island is bracing for a two-day winter storm arriving Friday night that forecasters said will bring 8 to 18 inches of snow, high winds and potential blizzard conditions.

A scientist at heart, renowned fossil finder and Stony Brook professor Richard Leakey also was a prodigious fundraiser, a mesmerizing lecturer, a fine chef, winemaker and host, according to friends and colleagues.

Richard Rosenberg "had a wonderful dry wit, and he was a terrifically nuanced headline writer," said a co-worker at the newspaper.

These supercharged storms occur when a mass of cold air "collides" with a warmer mass of air and there is a dramatic drop in air pressure, the National Weather Service says.

"I left prison 12 years ago but today, for the first time in 40 years, I feel free," Rodolfo Taylor said in Criminal Court in Riverhead.

The 2022 edition of the Islip Journal of War Veterans will feature veterans who served from the first Gulf War through the present. The entries will include the names, photos and hometowns of the veterans, their branch and dates of service, and any medals and honors awarded to them. 

Suffolk police said Lee Pulliam entered a neighbor's home in Manorville during a dispute on Christmas Eve without permission. The charges prompted Southampton's board to strip Pulliam, whose annual salary is $152,000, of pay for 30 days.

A state mandate to wear masks in schools and other indoor public places is back in effect for now after a state appellate division judge on Tuesday suspended, or "stayed," a ruling by a judge in Nassau County that the mandate was illegal.

Superseding indictment alleges a commercial trawler captain overharvested and sold $850,000 worth of illegal fish.

"I kept asking can we get there faster," recalled Chelsea Anderson of the birth of her son in an ambulance. "He was not waiting. In the blink of an eye, he was coming. He was ready and I was ready."

The scheme attempts to bilk consumers by offering COVID-19 tests provided by the federal government in exchange for personal and financial information, according to state consumer and health department officials.

Forecasts call for heavy snow and strong winds from the powerful winter storm, which will begin hitting Friday night, according to the National Weather Service. But the storm track is still uncertain.

Melville-based H2M architects + engineers was retained to identify restrictions that may cause flooding in the vicinity of Warwick, Plymouth and Chadwick roads.