Posing as a teenage boy on Snapchat, a former Riverhead High School teacher solicited nude images from underage girls and sent them explicit images of himself, prosecutors said in announcing ...

Donald Pelis of Riverhead died Sept. 18, 2026, at Peconic Bay Medical Center. He was 72 years old. Born Sept. 11, 1954, in Riverhead, he was the son of Evelyn (Sujeski) and Edmund Pelis. He worked in ...

Anne Marie Schmitt of Riverhead died Sept. 17, 2026. She was 94 years old.

Riverhead awarded a $328,000 community center HVAC contract and approved sewer financing, technology grants and records ...

Wading River Fire Department First Lieutenant Matthew Jakubowsky was honored by the County Legislature for his achievements ...

The League of Women Voters will host a Sept. 28 debate between the candidates for New York’s 1st Senate District and a Sept 30 forum on voting rights and the 2026 midterm elections.

Rep. Nick LaLota knows the safeguards built into our election system, yet campaigns on fixing a system that’s not broken.

A 2006 Riverhead High School graduate was arrested after running onto the field at Yankee Stadium waving Palestinian flag ...

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has proposed a $4.59 billion budget for 2027 that would hold the county’s general fund ...

Riverhead and Brookhaven will split the cost of an engineering assessment of the Wading River Duck Ponds, where sediment, ...

The free family event will offer fire truck tours, live demonstrations, fire safety education and children’s activities. Meet ...

Colleen Card, hired as Riverhead’s assistant superintendent for business in May, has been appointed school business ...