Suffolk County

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.

An extreme heat warning is in effect from noon Wednesday through Friday night, with an ozone advisory posted Wednesday.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the challenge to New York’s Even-Year Election Law, throwing out the government plaintiffs’ claims.

A federal jury set damages totaling $112 million in class-action lawsuit over detention of immigrants in Suffolk jails at the request of ICE, which district court judge ruled unconstitutional earlier this year.

While the Riverhead Planning Board continues its review of the site plan application for a 37,000-square-foot commercial development on Route 25A in Wading River, Suffolk County is considering preserving the site as open space.

New York State is increasing funding for grants that Suffolk County residents can use to replace outdated septic and cesspool systems with newer, advanced systems that reduce the contaminants wastewater releases into the environment.

A Wading River woman was arrested last week after allegedly accepting bribes and falsifying paperwork for a license application while working at the Suffolk County Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs.

The credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Suffolk County’s bond rating from 'BBB+' to 'A-' with a positive outlook, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced yesterday. Both S&P and Moody's have revised the county's fiscal outlook to positive.

Local hospitals and health officials are bracing for a post-Christmas surge even as they are coping with a surge that hit after the Thanksgiving holiday.

A State Supreme Court justice has ruled against the Town of Riverhead in a 2017 lawsuit brought to compel Suffolk County to pay the Riverhead Sewer District more than $2 million from the Drinking Water Protection Program.