Days after addressing her priorities for the state in her State of the State Address, Gov. Kathy Hochul released the 2025-2026 Executive Budget, which recommends a 4.75 percent increase in school …

Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her annual State of the State Address on Jan. 14, with tax cuts, child care expansion, affordability, and safety among her top priorities heading into the new legislative …

Daniel Panico, Brookhaven Town Supervisor “In this coming year, I will continue the preservation of open space, and push the redevelopments in downtown North Bellport and downtown Mastic …

Five days a week at nine outreach posts throughout Suffolk County, Lighthouse Mission of Bellport serves hundreds of people by providing them with food, groceries, clothing and prayer. In 2022, …

The CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale will be hosting a free book signing event on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. with acclaimed award-winning Suffolk County News journalist Sam Desmond. …

The breakout number, “Let Yourself Go,” at the start of Gateway’s “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas The Musical,” with the cast and ensemble, is a gorgeous, rousing …

State assemblyman Joe DeStefano (R, C) will be seeking reelection in the Third District this Nov. 5. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 2018. “I am seeking reelection …

Center for Environmental Education and Discovery has received a $95,250 matching grant from Suffolk County to help pay for replacing the wastewater treatment system at its Washington Lodge …

This summer, Gov. Hochul launched the “Get Offline, Get Outside” campaign to promote physical and mental health. The first-in-the-nation law is aimed at combating “addictive …

Class rank is about to become a thing of the past for most seniors at two area high schools. It’s part of a trend in which some schools are eliminating the practice because they say it …

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Though a presidential election, local elections will also include Congress, Senate, and Assembly. In New York’s 2nd Congressional District incumbent Andrew …

Fifth Precinct inspector John Sumwalt, 52, plans to retire from his post as commanding officer later this month. “It was a hard decision for me as I feel I truly have more I can still …

When the quails were let loose recently at the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery, a couple turned around and ran back to their enclosure. Like, “I’m not sure!” …

The Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association held its annual Labor Day Invitational Regatta on Saturday at Bellport Bay Yacht Club. Six sailboats took to the water under sunny skies and with …

Carole King’s muse was an almost divine-inspired, non-stop floodgate, racking up 188 pop hits, many of which she wrote with lyricist husband Gerry Goffin (they wrote more than 50 top 40 hits …

Across the Great South Bay from Wednesday, July 31 through Friday, Aug. 2, multi-colored sails cruised along the water before the Robert Moses Bridge as they participated in the Great South Bay Yacht …

Dashing from the double-decker diesel train to the electric locomotive across the platform is a staple of the daily commute for thousands of Long Island Rail Road riders. The diesel-to-electric …

The Medford Dairy Queen owners and sisters, Michelle Robey and Patricia DeMint, of Center Moriches, were recently hit by a class action lawsuit, which included a decades-old labor law aiming to …

Winters Bros. Waste Systems, the Long Island-based recycling and trash hauling company, has been acquired by Houston-based WM. The purchase price for the deal, which was completed on July 15, was not …