With three open seats up for grabs — and a competitive race for a GOP-held seat — the outcome of Long Island’s 2022 midterm races could play a deciding role in who controls Congress next year.

The Long Island Rail Road will add trains to the Elmont-UBS Arena station on event days beginning Nov. 7, in time for the Monday game between the New York Islanders and the Calgary Flames, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.

The family behind the company hired by New York City to help manage an influx of asylum seekers has been a generous supporter of several of the governors responsible for busing many of those migrants to the city, according to campaign finance records.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor David C. Banks announced Monday that city public schools will not suffer funding cuts due to lower-than-projected enrollment rates.

In the New York State race, the governor needs to turn out voters in the city, while her opponent is banking on support upstate and in the suburbs.

The Climate Action Council is poised to decide whether the state should enact a limited clean fuel standard that would incentivize electrification and low-carbon fuels for transportation.

The Republican Party’s top two stars are campaigning, separately, in the midterms’ last days.

The industry continues to fight efforts to restrict certain products, like spending heavily to urge California voters to overturn a law banning tobacco flavors.