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The undefeated Riverhead High School boys cross country team captured its first league championship in 13 years.

A solar energy and battery storage facility on Riverhead Town's closed and capped Youngs Avenue landfill is 'days away from completion,' Council Member Bob Kern announced Thursday.

Compare the candidates, their priorities and the jobs they’re seeking in this guide to the races Riverhead voters will decide Nov. 3. Plus: local sample ballot.

Downtown flooding, housing, code enforcement and EPCAL redevelopment were among the topics Jerry Halpin and Ken Rothwell addressed at a packed candidate forum Wednesday night.

Inscribed in English, Spanish, Polish and Ukrainian, a new Peace Pole on Riverhead's Riverwalk carries the message 'May Peace Prevail on Earth.'

A proposal to expand Riverhead’s Walmart by approximately 26,835 square feet and add grocery offerings will go to a public hearing Nov. 19.

A former Riverhead High School teacher and soccer coach was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for soliciting nude images from underage girls and sending them sexually explicit images of himself.

Amendments proposed by Council Member Ken Rothwell cut Supervisor Jerry Halpin's proposed 2027 tax levy by $643,858, reducing the tax levy increase to 1.73%. The budget hearing is set for Nov. 4.

The Riverhead Board of Education approved an artificial intelligence policy Oct. 14 that sets expectations for student use, requires supervisor approval for staff and bars confidential district information from generative AI systems.

Deep in the newly preserved woods around the former Shoreham nuclear plant sits Split Rock, a glacial formation that the Unkechaug Nation considers one of the most sacred sites on Long Island.