Forecasters are warning of low humidity and gusty wind increased the risk fire could spread across parts of New Jersey, ...

A man set a bonfire using wooden pallets in New Jersey's Pine Barrens and left them without fully extinguishing the blaze, ...

There is an increased risk for rapid fire spread this afternoon across portions of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.” ...

Suffolk County and Brookhaven Town officials on Tuesday announced the arrests of two people in separate cases involving alleged illegal dumping in and near the pine barrens, Long Island’s most ...

After two investigations following commercial and residential dumping incidents in the pine barrens, authorities announced the arrest of two individuals. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon ...

They’re not out of the woods yet. Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an invasive species that could spell ...

A wildfire ripped through about 600 acres of the vulnerable Pine Barrens just one month ago, prompting a statewide residential burn ban in effect through May 14. Started by a backyard campfire ...

Master Sgt. Barry Wood was onboard a military helicopter flying 2,000 feet above Long Island Sound when he recognized his destination — the New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing in ...

Long before John McPhee’s “The Pine Barrens” was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate ...

Brandon Orozco-Avila, 28, was operating the ATV in the Clayton Pits, a series of dirt and sand trails behind the Pine Barrens Golf Course and the Clayton Sand concrete plant. Orozco-Avila lost ...