The State Department of Environmental Conservation plans to conduct prescribed burns on certain DEC-managed lands in Suffolk County between now and early May.

Over a seven-day span, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers responded to 12 fires across ...

The officials in New York State have a law of how big your bonfire can be in your backyard. If you are getting ready to have ...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation recently released a new installment of the ...

First, it reduces the risk of major forest fires. By doing a controlled burn like New York State is going to do, it gets rid ...

Queens civic leaders issued a dire warning about what the loss of summer concerts at Forest Hills Stadium would mean for the area — calling the possibility “nothing short of a travesty.” ...

The Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York are blanketed with six million acres of forestland surrounding rocky mountain ...

The aftereffects of Hurricane Helene are still being felt in South Carolina as downed trees and vegetation fuel wildfires in the state, officials said in a news briefing on Friday. There are ...

The Table Rock wildfire burning in South Carolina continued to grow Thursday, but conditions that created dramatic expansion the day before eased, officials said. The fire, which was started March ...

Killbuck- Robert C Wood of Killbuck, a beloved son, brother, uncle, friend and neighbor passed away peacefully after a brief illness on March 19, 2025, at the age of 82. Bob was born on July 26, 1942, ...

Lying between Lake Ontario and New York's Finger Lakes is an underrated state park with some of the most unique rock ...

UPDATE 3/26: The cause of the brush fire has been revealed. According to the Millport Fire Department, the fire was caused by a downed power line. According to Millport Fire Chief John May, one ...