For investors and national stakeholders eyeing New York's market, Long Island offers a critical lesson: state-level legalization doesn't guarantee local access. To build a truly functional, scalable ...

The president does not have the authority to require proof of citizenship for all voters, a federal judge ruled.

Every year, Coachella brings thousands of people out to the desert to get messy. And this year, hard-partying festival-goers will have the perfect soundtrack, courtesy of Lola Young’s hit of the ...

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler's opinion of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is crystal clear. "I think Kathy Hochul is the most feckless, incompetent governor in America," Lawler said in an ...

The Third Annual Long Island Fairy Festival is returning to Sands Point Preserve on May 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a rain date of May 4. The Fairy Festival embraces creativity, imagination ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Gabriella Asare, Brentwood, Jr. Asare’s personal-best of 15.25 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles is the second-best mark of any returning Long Island runner. Breanne Barnett, Baldwin, Jr. The ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois House Republicans waited too long to file a lawsuit challenging legislative maps drawn in 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. As a result, the Democrat ...

A 15-year-old boy on Long Island is accused of stabbing his own grandmother to death and attempting to kill his mother. It happened Monday at a home on Town Line Road in Selden, Suffolk County.

Hands Across Long Island leased 5,110 square feet of office space at 3100 Veterans Memorial Highway in Bohemia. The nonprofit will use the new space as its administrative offices. Founded in ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A man on Long Island grew up with a suspicion that something wasn't right - that maybe he wasn't in the right family. Then, his sister took a DNA test, and those suspicions ...