Suffolk County News

Students in nursery and pre-K at Our Lady of Guadalupe, sister schools in Central Islip and Deer Park, spend half the day studying in English and the other half in Spanish. By graduation from 8th grade, students should be completely fluent in both languages.

The town board selected Uniondale-based developer RXR and Jericho-based developer Georgica Green Ventures to transform the long-blighted lot surrounding the LIRR train station into a mixed-use area of apartments and shops. 

A state Supreme Court justice ruled in 2020 that a permit allowing the Noyac mine to dig 40 feet deeper and operate for nearly a decade longer was valid, but Southampton Town and environmental groups appealed. A May appellate court ruling found the DEC violated state environmental conservation law by issuing the permit.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many Long Island doctors and other medical personnel are frustrated with the people who still refuse to get vaccinated. They blame it on social media.

A funeral Mass for Gerhard will be celebrated Wednesday at noon at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Bay Shore. 

Babylon Town has entered into an agreement with the hospital to station a staffed ambulance at the firehouse 24/7, at no cost, while the embattled company transitions back to answering emergency calls and restoring its cancelled contract.

"We're going to use that to strengthen our grant proposals to try and obtain funding for water main extensions to cover these areas impacted," said Frank Mancini, Riverhead's water district superintendent, of areas in Calverton and Manorville.  

The CDC is looking at various indicators before updating their mask-wearing recommendations, possibly as early as this week.

Nearly a third of Americans report such symptoms — triple the pre-COVID-19 number — as they adjust to shifting ideas of what the new normal will look like.

LIRR president Phillip Eng said he had been thinking about leaving the railroad for some time, and felt the time was right, in part because he "did what I came here to do."

Former chief Thomas Cummings, who is now with the Suffolk County Crime Analysis Center in Yaphank, got a $774G payout when his contract was not renewed that the mayor says was "extraordinarily lopsided against the village taxpayer" and must be avoided in future contracts.

The hope is that Hochul will embrace the local support and then ask President Joe Biden to designate it a national monument through the 1906 Antiquities Act.

A key issue for policymakers is establishing the metrics for determining when to move on to this 'new normal,' experts say.

Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve plans to produce six videos featuring stories of residents 85 years or older who have interesting or compelling stories about life in Islip Town, the nonprofit said. 

Hiring and retaining substitute teachers, school nurses, custodians and bus drivers remains a problem at LI schools, educators said, even with districts seeing fewer staff absences as the winter surge of COVID-19 recedes.

Steven Ortner and his 10-month-old son are being treated for burns suffered in a house fire early Friday in East Setauket. Family members say the couple worked to first save their baby, Leo. But Lisa Ostrowski couldn't escape the blaze and died.

Researchers at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island in Mineola are examining genetic information in brain cells to find out what causes Alzheimer's disease.

Smith, who opposed development plans for a 75-acre Smithtown property owned by former defense contractor Gyrodyne, was "one of those people every community should want," said Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine.

Kevin Rollins's death in December 2018 happened because county officials ignored a drug contraband problem at the facility and didn't treat his addiction, the lawsuit alleges.

A fast-moving midnight fire fed by whipping winds tore through the home, killing a mother and badly burning the father of their 10-month-old son when he made a desperate rescue attempt, officials said.