Long Island Sound

Peconic Land Trust is now in contract with Nassau County to buy the 4-H Camp property in Baiting Hollow. It still seeks Riverhead's participation in preserving the site.

Riverhead Town’s beaches on the Long Island Sound will be closed today “as a result of rough surf and hazardous conditions resulting from Hurricane Erin,” Supervisor Tim Hubbard said in a press release.

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday vetoed the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act, passed by the State Legislature in June to ban the taking...

A bill that would ban the taking of horseshoe crabs in New York waters, awaits Gov. Hochul's signature. The species has existed more than 400 million years and is now in decline.

The four canoers pulled from the Sound by police were taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of hypothermia after spending time in 58-degree water, police said.

A Westchester-based developer is looking to build a '5-star resort' on the Long Island Sound in Riverhead and has met with Town Board members and other officials to discuss the idea.

Save the Sound analyzes water quality data provided by county health departments to the US EPA for L.I. Sound beaches across the island, NYC and Connecticut. Here's what their just-released 2023 report says about local beaches.

A federal appeals court today scuttled New York State’s hope of blocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from establishing a new open water disposal site for dredged sediments in eastern Long Island Sound.

A Baiting Hollow resident caught video of the smoldering remains of a burnt-out vehicle on the beach west of the wrecks on the Long Island Sound beach in Baiting Hollow early Tuesday morning. Neither the fire nor the burnt out-vehicle had been reported to police.

There was another shark sighting in shallow waters of the L.I. Sound close to shore in Mattituck Friday afternoon.