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 ...

Federal legislation that could lead to the permanent preservation of Plum Island and protect it from development cleared a key step Wednesday when the U.S. Senate passed by unanimous consent the Plum ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ecologically sensitive Plum Island could be one step closer to conservation because of language in the newly-passed federal omnibus budget that requires government agencies to communicate about ...

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.