NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - New York City has a special police force that operates only outside the five boroughs. The officers are tasked with protecting the city's drinking water at upstate reservoirs. ...

Twenty-nine boaters were stopped last week during a spot check on the river. The state Department of Environmental Protection and the police department’s marine unit made the patrol July 12.

The state's highest court ruled Tuesday that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's police officers are authorized to make traffic stops throughout the upstate watershed region ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. – The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Monday welcomed 40 new trainees to its police academy in the city. The new class of recruits will train at the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated where the Department of Environmental Protection police were located when they were shot at. That information has been corrected ...

A drunken city Department of Correction investigator who kicked and spat on cops in the Catskills has scored a light sentence of three years’ probation, prosecutors confirmed. Deputy Director of ...

WORCESTER — State and local officials responded to a report of a bear that had been walking in a roadway Sunday morning and were thankfully able to relocate it safely. At about 8:15 a.m. Sunday ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection and police in Pittsburgh and Mt. Lebanon are searching for a missing portable gauge that contains sealed radioactive material.The DEP, which made the ...