Long Island homeowners are once again eligible for real property tax refund checks, only this year it is not only based on their property tax burden, but their income level as well. FULL STORY

Senator Craig M. Johnson announces that the New York State Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing Thursday, Sept. 21 on a rail-freight project that is expected to have a real impact on the Metropolitan Transit Authority's (MTA) controversial third track expansion. FULL STORY

The Long Island Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (LIJDRF) will be working up a sweat on Sept. 16 at Belmont Lake State Park in Babylon and Sept. 30 at SUNY Old Westbury at their annual walk, whose theme this year is "The Cure - Our Final Frontier." FULL STORY