The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation has two seal hikes and a nighttime owl hike on the agenda in the coming days. 

President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency comes in for praise and skepticism in a Senate confirmation hearing.

Tommy John Schiavoni was sworn in as the new assemblyman for the First District of New York on Friday night in Sag Harbor, with his wife, acting Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Andrea Harum Schiavoni, administering the oath of office. He became only the fourth person to hold that post since 1969.

“What’s happening in California is something that can happen every day here in New York,” said Chuck Hamilton, the founder of the New York Wildfire Incident Management Academy. The East End has what he called an “urban interface” — also present in Southern California — which means that houses touch right up against forested areas ripe with fuel.