Carolyn Gusoff

A Long Island high school student earned a perfect score on the New York State Chemistry Regents exam, ending a 25-year challenge set by his teacher.

The Kings Park School District on Long Island suspended outdoor recess and athletic activities on grass fields after an unusual number of tick bites were reported to the school nurse.

The price of home heating oil​ in parts of the Tri-State Area is almost double what it was this time last year. That could mean a painful winter ahead for homeowners.

Suffolk County legislators scrutinized Flock Safety's license plate reader technology during a public hearing on Thursday.

A recent bank scheme was foiled by a quick-thinking Long Island woman. The would-be crook used caller ID-spoofing technology, which experts say is getting more and more convincing.

Two endangered Wollemi pines, a tree species once thought extinct and dating back to the age of dinosaurs, are now on display at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay.

A new weapon against breast cancer is using AI to make radiation more precise, sparing healthy breast tissue.

A Nassau County homeowner says a mystery vandal has repeatedly targeted his North Massapequa home, pouring an unknown liquid on his lawn in the middle of the night and leaving behind dead patches of grass.

Utilities are warning their customers that criminals have been posing as electric company workers, and they have been armed with information a customer would think only the utility would know.

Twenty-five years ago, a little girl named Emily Clark wrote to a firefighter after 9/11, asking him to write back. FDNY Captain Tom Brown did more than that. He showed up at her school instead.