The Long Island Regional Planning Council voted Thursday to support efforts to preserve Plum Island, where the federal government plans to close its animal disease research center. Members of the ...

The decades-long effort to turn a tiny island at the eastern approach to Long Island Sound into a nature sanctuary has gotten a big boost from the recently enacted federal budget, which orders the ...

Support trusted local news with a donation today. Give now for a chance to get your gift MATCHED. An effort to preserve a tiny island off the tip of Long Island got a major boost in the recently ...

PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. -- The future of Long Island's Plum Island is a step closer to being saved. The 822-acre island is about a mile from the tip of the North Fork. After Plum Island was pulled from the ...

Sep. 25—A quartet of U.S. senators, including Connecticut's delegation, have introduced legislation designed to "manage and preserve" the federally owned Plum Island off the coast of Long Island ...

Environmental activists, civic groups and elected officials said Wednesday they are a step closer to keeping Plum Island — the 840-acre land mass off Orient Point that is home to exotic wildlife — in ...

Advocates are pushing to preserve Plum Island by making the land mass a national monument, a designation given to sites including the Statue of Liberty and the birthplace of George Washington.

Local activists have a new plan for the future of Plum Island in Long Island Sound. Plum Island is owned by the federal government, but they've been trying to sell it since 2008. The preservation plan ...