Hurricane Sandy Aftermath
After being shut down by Hurricane Sandy last fall, the New York Aquarium will reopen May 25. Thanks to the efforts of wildlife experts during the storm, all of the animals survived, except for 130 koi fish.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved $50.5 billion in long-delayed federal disaster aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy, but not before Republicans flexed their budget-cutting muscle to strike some spending provisions.
After passing $9.7 billion in Hurricane Sandy Relief funding, Northeastern governors and policy makers are pushing the House of Representatives to allocate another $50.7 in federal funds to help aid the Sandy disaster recovery effort on Tuesday. But conservatives and watch-dog groups say the $50 billion request is loaded with pork.
Victims of Hurricane Sandy finally have their aid package approved by House Republicans, and a fight is brewing over the next Secretary of Defense.
The House of Representatives closed the voting for session without voting on a bill that would grant financial aid to the states ravaged by hurricane Sandy. The decision to close session before proposing to vote on the bill has evoked a bipartisan resentment.
Miami musicians and residents will join tonight to raise funds for the community of the Rockaways affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The impact of Hurricane Sandy looms large over the latest United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, already in progress in Doha, Qatar.
Gov. Chris Christie released a statement on Friday with preliminary damage estimates of nearly $29.4 billion in the Garden State.
Over 100,000 customers remain without power on Long Island two weeks after Hurricane Sandy.
It is hard to sleep at night inside the tent city at Oceanport, New Jersey. A few hundred Superstorm Sandy refugees have been living here since Wednesday - a muddy camp that is a sprawling anomaly amidst Mercedes Benz dealerships and country clubs in this town near the state's devastated coastal region.
The latest updates on volunteer opportunities and donation drop locations for the weekend of Nov. 10-11.
Close to 200 Sandy evacuees were sent to a tent shelter in Monmouth Park racetrack on Wednesday ahead of the nor'easter.
123,000 new power outages in Long Island, NYC
The wintery storm, which came days after a devastating hurricane ravaged the East Coast, left areas blanketed in snow and thousands freezing and without power.
The mobile provider announced that residents in hurricane affected areas of New York and New Jersey will not be charged for domestic voice and text usage from Oct. 29 to Nov. 16.
