Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding to the fires around the Pine Barrens, ...

Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong ...

The annual brush burning ban in New York State is set to start Sunday, March 16. From March 16 through May 14, residents are ...

Investigators believe the initial backyard blaze started when a Long Island resident used cardboard to ignite a fire to make ...

A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed ...

A homeowner's failed attempt to make s'mores likely sparked this weekend's fast-moving brush fire on Long Island, Suffolk ...

Police in New York say multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were ...

An attempt to make s'mores accidentally sparked the massive brush fires that impacted the East End of Long Island, Suffolk ...

The Long Island brush fires that injured two firefighters and damaged two buildings were started by a person cooking s’mores, ...

Investigators say embers from a backyard fire spread rapidly, fueling blazes that prompted evacuations and an emergency burn ...

A family attempting to make s’mores in their backyard accidentally sparked several brush fires that burned hundreds of acres ...