Pine Tree ISD board members voted this past week to adopt a preliminary 2025-26 budget with a deficit of roughly $2.1 million ...

The bugs pick away the foliage of pine trees. A local entomologist has tips on how to get the invasive species out of your ...

Pine trees make needle drop easy to notice because they often have an open branching habit. Because pine needles grow — and fall — in bundles of two or more, the loss may be especially obvious.

The southern pine beetle, which migrated to the eastern end of Suffolk County a decade ago, is ravaging the local ecosystem by drying out trees and making them susceptible to fire weather.