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Long Island school districts will receive more than $270 million in additional state aid for the 2025-26 academic year under the state budget passed on this week.

Four airlines currently service Long Island MacArthur Airport, flying to more than a dozen locations from Maine to Florida. Here are all the places you can fly to from the Town of Islip airport.   

More than 70% of the school bus camera tickets from 2023 were issued on streets that students do not cross, a Newsday investigation found.

He won Suffolk for the third consecutive election and captured Nassau for the first time, becoming the first Republican to win there since 1988.

See how much educators across Long Island were paid for the 2023-24 academic year.

At least 22 residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties have been arrested for bilking the federal government's marquee business-relief programs, allegedly using the money for yachts, luxury watches and automobiles, vacation homes and nights out in New York City.

LI Divided investigation results in license revocations, suspensions and fines for agents named in Newsday series.

View results by community for 3rd Congressional District special election between Tom Suozzi and Mazi Pilip.

Of Long Island's 124 school districts, 76%, saw their student population drop from the 2012-13 school year to the 2022-23 year.

Suffolk has 103 cases dating back to 1969, and Nassau has 36 missing persons cases going back to 1955.

Totals varied widely across the Island, with especially high numbers in southwest Nassau County.

Atlantic storms follow a variety of tracks as they move toward land. Here is a sampling of storms that have visited Long Island, some with a direct hit and some with a glancing blow.

Explore Nassau County's 2022 payroll data through the charts, overview and a searchable database.

Explore Suffolk County's 2022 payroll data through the charts, overview and a searchable database.

Look up what Long Island school districts are paying to settle Child Victims Act claims.

While there was an exodus of NYers during the first two years of the pandemic, on LI, the number of full-time taxpayers climbed.

In the Nassau-Suffolk region, districts have held more than 70 special votes over the past dozen years and approved nearly $1.4 billion in spending, the report says.

On Jan. 1, the GOP will control the county executive and district attorney offices in Nassau and Suffolk for the first time since 2001.

The highest compensated administrators are LIU's Kimberly Cline, NYIT's Hank Foley and Adelphi's Christine Riordan.

The MTA has said the system isn't working and vowed changes, including stepped-up police enforcement.

Rates are rising more rapidly among women. That has led to a 10-fold increase in syphilis cases in newborns nationwide.

Six schools ranked in the top 20 in New York State, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Pump prices tend to decline this time of year, but they've fallen below where they were a year ago.

Experts say "managed retreat" — moving human infrastructure away from the advancing ocean — will be unavoidable in decades to come.

The data also showed that New York state faced a net loss of an estimated 244,000 people who moved to other states between 2021 and 2022, with the largest number relocating to Florida and other parts of the Sun Belt.

First-year enrollment on most local campuses is slightly above figures from last year, when colleges began to recover from the impacts of the COVID pandemic.

Crashes claimed 243 lives in 2022, 29% more than in 2019. That's an average of nearly five deaths per week.

Some project opponents and fiscal watchdogs have criticized the tactic as an overt attempt to curry favor through earmarks unrelated to the project, funded in part by commuters and taxpayers.

A Newsday analysis shows three communities that saw big price increases, and three that saw big decreases. Check our database to see what happened in your community. 

The average monthly delays between March and August were about 136% higher than for the same six-month period last year and 21% higher than during the same period in 2019.

On Long Island, most high schools have made the switch to turf fields. Of the 111 varsity teams, only 11 have grass football fields.

Pricey upfront but nearly free in the long run, geothermal systems are slowly heating up on Long Island.

Experts say the census data doesn't accurately portray the economic hardships Long Islanders are struggling with, especially in the real estate market.

Some pay packages are eye-popping, but the pace of raises moderated, a Newsday analysis found. Search our database of 200 public company executives to see who had the biggest paychecks.

That average cost per student is up nearly 6% from last year, Newsday found. Statewide, the average per pupil is $31,950.

Gastrointestinal cancers were the fastest growing category from 2010 to 2019, followed by cancers of the urinary system and female reproductive system, the data showed.

The ratings were suspended three years ago amid the COVID pandemic. Now they're back, but they face criticism from some educators, who contend that entire districts can be called out based on data covering relatively small numbers of students.

A Black Long Islander is seven times more likely to have been diagnosed with HIV as a white resident. A Latino resident is three times more likely, data shows.