Suffolk's mayor points to demographic shifts in the fast-growing city.

“We’re entering the national stage on urban sea level rise,” said executive director Marjorie Mayfield Jackson. “It will be a game changer.”

Sailors on the USS George Washington say a long maintenance process compounded with the pandemic and everyday military expectations could have contributed to the five suicides that happened on the ship in the last year.

For more than two years, scientists with the sanitation district have collected samples from local treatment plants and sifted through them for traces of the coronavirus.