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Hot temperatures and high humidity will produce heat index values up to 97° F. on the East End and 100+ across the rest of the island and in NYC today and tomorrow.

Rep. Lee Zeldin today called for passage of a bill he sponsored in March to nationalize the New York State veteran peer-to-peer program, which grew out of a pilot program Zeldin spearheaded while a state senator in 2012.

Twenty-six new mosquito samples, including three in Aquebogue, have tested positive for West Nile virus, Suffolk County Health Commissioner Gregson Pigott announced today.

Sound Avenue in Riverhead is closed to traffic due to a crash at the intersection with Osborn Avenue.

Air quality and heat advisories are in effect for Long Island and NYC today due to high heat, humidity and smog.

An indoor shooting range remains part of the revised site plan application filed by Signature Partners July 25. The Planning Board will schedule a public hearing on the application "as soon as possible," the board chairperson said last night.

A center dedicated to advocating for and protecting at-risk children and youth wants the community and local law enforcement agencies to know it has opened a Riverhead office to serve the East End.

Recap of the Aug. 2 town board meeting, where the board OK'd the $20 million purchase of the PBMC Second Street campus.set a hearing on a code to regulate battery energy storage systems, and more.

Riverhead Town Police are seeking the public’s help to locate a Eianna Delorantis, 18, who left the Little Flower campus in Wading River Monday without permission. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Riverhead Town Police Department at 631-727-4500.

There will be no ballot referendum this year in Riverhead to add a half-percent real estate transfer tax to  build revenue for town-sponsored affordable housing opportunities, as the Town Board has determined that the town has enough affordable housing and the state law allowing East End towns to create a “community housing fund” is not meant for Riverhead.