PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Plum Island Animal Disease Center off eastern Long Island may have been responsible for outbreaks of Lyme disease and West Nile virus and could be vulnerable to terrorist ...

Meteorologist Tyler Hughes continues to track a storm system in his Friday noon forecast. Rain and wind caused flight delays at Tweed Airport Friday during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.

Claims that Lyme disease was developed as a military bioweapon and escaped from a government lab are flatly contradicted by decades of scientific evidence -- despite what federal regulators have ...

Plum Island, the pork-chop shaped islet the size of Central Park whose main mission is animal-disease research, is a mostly untamed place that encompasses the best of Long Island’s North- and ...