I’m still following Boston events closely, but for a mental break from all that, let’s talk about Sandy Island — the island that never was but always will be, thanks to the magic of digital ...

A research ship cruised through the Coral Sea, east of Australia, bearing down on Sandy Island. The digital scientific databases used by the researchers showed the island to be 15 miles long ...

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Deputies in Georgetown County assisted in the removal of abandoned boats and debris from the Sandy Island Boat Landing on Wednesday. According to the Georgetown ...

There’s this wild mystery about an island called Sandy Island—it doesn’t exist, but it keeps showing up on maps. For years, people thought it was real because early explorers reported it, and ...

History is back on display at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. Precious treasures were returned Wednesday after they were displaced by Superstorm Sandy.

Last year, a group of Australian researchers "undiscovered" an island the size of Manhattan in the South Pacific. A mysterious place called Sandy Island had popped up on maps, northwest of New ...

An early 20th century immigration inspector’s desk and hat were among the first artifacts returned to the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Wednesday, nearly three years after ...

The French Hydrographic Service removed the island from its nautical charts in 1979. A few decades later, Sandy Island again began to appear on digital maps - puzzling experts even more.

Superstorm Sandy packed a historic wallop for the Long Island electric system. Ninety percent of LIPA’s customers, 945,000 of its 1.1 million ratepayers, were left in the dark, and a second nor ...

Sandy’s destruction sparked the creation of Smith Island United, a community organization in direct contrast to the federal government, which sought to permanently remove residents from the island.

Are these homeowners ready for another superstorm? It was the most damaging storm in Long Island history. Thirty-foot waves offshore. 90% of the Island lost power. Historic flooding and beach erosion.

Ten years after Hurricane Sandy ravaged Staten Island, residents and city officials are finally ready to put the borough's devastation in the rear view.