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Firefighters quickly knocked down a blaze at a house on Peninsula Path last night. A family of four was safely evacuated but one firefighter was taken to the hospital for treatment of a burn injury, the Riverhead fire chief said.

The Riverhead Town Board is ready to approve the preliminary site plans for a five-story mixed-use addition to the Suffolk Theater and a four-story mixed-use building on McDermott Avenue. The board will vote to approve the plans next week.

Riverhead is hoping to make its downtown area more “family friendly” with changes to town code that will ban certain uses in a new overlay district and beef up the town’s existing “Zero Tolerance Zone” rules, creating new offenses with criminal penalties and increasing penalties for some violations already on the books. 

The suspect used a stolen credit card to make purchases at Best Buy and Michaels, both located at 1440 Old Country Road, on Dec. 28, according to police.

Residents are invited to share a cup of coffee with State Sen. Anthony Palumbo and Riverhead Town Police officers next Friday morning...

An exhibit focusing on the storied era of the Harlem Renaissance and a screening and discussion of the film 'Selma' are events taking place during Black History Month at Riverhead Free Library.

Riverhead is one of 11 U.S. destinations named to the Forbes top 50 destinations list this year. Here's what Forbes had to say about the town at the head of the Peconic River.

The nine-hole, par-3 Sandy Pond Golf Course on Roanoke Avenue, a mainstay in Riverhead for more than half a century, has been purchased by Brian Stark and Earl Truland, who are already working on upgrades and plan to add a mini-golf course and a new clubhouse on the 18-acre site.

Both driver, age 18, and his 16-year-old passenger are in critical condition at Stony Brook University Hospital after a crash that occurred just before 12:30 a.m., Riverhead Police said in a press release

Riverhead Central School District has been sued by two parents for requiring students to wear masks in schools after a Nassau judge last January ruled the State Health Department’s mask mandate “null, void and unenforceable as a matter of law.” The ruling never took effect due to an appellate court stay pending the state's appeal and was later made moot when the state lifted the mandate after the winter COVID surge subsided.