A terrible gale lashed Long Island Sound on a winter’s night in 1805. Faulkner’s Island lighthouse keeper Joseph Griffing woke the next morning to survey the damage and glanced to the west to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning a “controlled burn” on Falkner Island this month. The Branford Police Department posted on its Facebook page Wednesday that the southern half of ...

"It's disappointing," Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society executive director Tony Femminella said Friday of the closure, resulting from exterior damage caused by a storm earlier this month.

Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Alexcy Romero says the lighthouse is not used for nautical purposes anymore, but repairs are still needed to preserve a piece of Long Island's history.