The state Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced Tuesday the adoption of updated regulations to expand protection of freshwater wetlands across New York.

The Department of Environmental Protection credits above-average rainfall coupled with conservation efforts by New Yorkers as to what helped restore reservoir levels back to normal.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Special drought conditions are no longer in effect in New York City after Mayor Eric Adams lifted a drought watch Friday. Adams credited above-average precipitation in recent ...

The statewide drought watch has been lifted as of Friday, January 3. According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), all 62 counties under the watch have returned to ...

Prior to joining WSB-TV in 1999, Strickland spent 15 years as a reporter for WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was ...

The city blamed the exceptionally dry conditions for causing hundreds of brush fires, including one in November at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park that burned across two acres. Shortly after, the FDNY ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that ...

The New York Times says the story at the center of actor Justin Baldoni’s $250 million lawsuit against the paper was "meticulously and responsibly reported." ...

Homeowners in Whitestown had until the end of December to reply to purchase offers concerning a buyout program linked to the devastating Halloween floods of 2019.

Strong northwesterly winds on the southwest side of a low-pressure system lingering over southeastern Canada will lead to continued lake-effect snow bands downwind of the Great Lakes through the end ...

Case manager Bryon Johnson flashed a light into a dark tunnel beneath the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip on a recent fall ...

As people dispose of their Christmas trees, farmers and scientists are working to secure the long-term future of these conifers in the face of climate change.