Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Riverhead Town Police Department officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a man they say stole merchandise from a Riverhead store in January.

The Riverhead Town Board is expected to adopt new meeting rules tomorrow to ban signs and reduce the time speakers have to comment on resolutions and town matters, but retain the ability for ...

Charles L. Lauer died on Feb. 28, 2025, in Holtsville. He was 98 years old.

Francis J. Palamara of Riverhead died on Feb. 27, 2025. He was 99 years old. Born on July 13, 1925, in Brooklyn, he was the son of Joseph and Marie (Spina) Palamara. He served in the U.S. Navy during ...

The county health department is offering free rabies vaccinations for dogs, cats and ferrets on Friday, March 21 at the Eastern LI Academy of Applied Technology in Riverhead.

With nine regulation pickleball courts, a restaurant and bar, and other amusements like a bocce court, corn hole games and ...

If the ongoing federal staffing cuts and budget-slashing worried the environmental advocates and local officials at Sen. Anthony Palumbo’s environmental roundtable, their concerns were mostly ...

Luevinia Jones of Medford, New Jersey, formerly of Riverhead, died at her home on Feb. 26, 2025, at home. She was 94 years old.

The Baiting Hollow Congregational Church is opening its Thrift Shop for the season on March 20, 2025. The shop will be open every Thursday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., through Nov. 22.

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Riverhead firefighters made a quick stop of a house fire on Linda Lane East late last night. Jamesport and Flanders fire departments responded to assist.

A man was arrested last night in his Riverhead home for being in possession of a loaded handgun, according to Riverhead Police. Carmine Testa Jr., 21, was arrested for second degree criminal ...