Denise Civiletti

Sixty-one immigrants classified as "unaccompanied children" have enrolled in the Riverhead school district since July 1. The district will need to hire additional teachers to handle the influx of children, who need ESL instruction and other services. Riverhead had already added three new ESL positions to the budget this spring to handle existing demand.

Showing off his dragster at downtown Riverhead car show, Aquebogue driver laments lack of local track.

The giant home improvement retailer is offering 12 months of free identity protection services, including credit monitoring, to customers who used debit cards at their stores since April 2014.

(Updated: 12:05 p.m.) Flanders Road was reopened just before 1 p.m., accordng to the state DOT. A collision between a tractor trailer and...

A Kent Animal Shelter employee unwittingly brought a 40-caliber mortar shell to work today. The employee had found the shell while clamming yesterday...

RiverheadLOCAL celebrated its 4th birthday yesterday, Jan. 19, 2014. I celebrated the occasion — four years of working seven days a week, 90...

The trailer in the parking lot at the Riverside jail, which has for more than six years been used to provide emergency shelter...

"The car show goes on," Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter declared on Friday afternoon.

"This is a cruise night for a respectable group of men and women who come to town to show off their cars and patronize our businesses. I'll be darned if I'm ever going to tell them they're not welcome here," Walter said Friday afternoon.

Declaring that their time has come and promising to bring professionalism and good government to Riverhead Town Hall, Riverhead Democrats vowed to "hit the ground runnning" and get out the vote to defeat the Republican incumbent supervisor and council members in November.

Controversy over use of the Peconic River parking lot for classic car cruise nights every Thursday may scuttle the popular weekly event first introduced downtown in 2010, if the vice president of the BID Management Association has anything to say about it.