Sean Walter

Riverhead Town tax assessor and Republican party leader Mason Haas is suing the town to challenge the constitutionality of an ethics code amendment he says was adopted to force him from his post as chairman of the Republican committee.

No one will claim responsibility for a phone poll asking Riverhead Republican voters what they think of Supervisor Sean Walter's 'temperament,' which Councilwoman Jodi Giglio says was done by either Walter or Democrat Anthony Coates to make her look bad. She insists the two are working together against her.

Candidates involved in the Sept. 10 primary election filed their first pre-election campaign finance reports this week. (See reports here.) Councilwoman Jodi Giglio, seeking the...

Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter joined anti-abortion protesters outside the Planned Parenthood office on East Main Street yesterday afternoon. He also joins the call for the federal government to defund the organization after the release of undercover videos concerning fetal tissue 'sales' by the group.

Some Riverhead officials have recently advocated changing police policy regarding undocumented immigrants. But some of the changes they have in mind are not only costly and difficult to implement, but illegal, according to the director of a local civil liberties group.

The owner of the old Sears building and three smaller buildings adjacent to it has signed a contract to sell the properties to a developer with plans to construct a five-story apartment building on the site.

Contractors removed more than 10,000 pounds of dead bunker fish from downtown waters today, Supervisor Sean Walter said this afternoon.

After two years of intermittent squabbling over the issue, the Riverhead Town Board voted unanimously to hold a public hearing on a proposed ethics...

The 2015 elections officially get underway today — the day under state election rules candidates can begin circulating party designating petitions required to get...

The Riverhead Business Improvement District is considering using funds from its downtown farmer’s market to purchase and install security cameras in locations around downtown Riverhead.