The developer of an $80 million shopping center proposed along the border of Dix Hills and Elwood plans to modify the proposal after community opposition.
A state judge issued an order this week postponing the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee election until the committee can prove its true voting membership.
School budgets were passing overwhelmingly in districts across Long Island, with returns including a lopsided win in the Greenport district, which overrode its state tax cap for the third time in a row.
The Suffolk County Legislature voted Tuesday to create a Marine Industry Revitalization Advisory Council to boost an industry "decimated" by superstorm Sandy and in urgent need of skilled workers, dredging of waterways and water quality watchdogs.
A Huntington Station man was arraigned Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge in connection with a fatal shooting during a Lindenhurst bar fight, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.
A very small tsunami occurred off the coast of Montauk in the wake of Tuesday's unsettled weather, but residents don't need to sound the alarm, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center.
Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto "traded their office for money, plain and simple," a federal prosecutor stated in closing arguments.
Two incumbent board members remaining after a shake-up of the Islip Town Community Development Agency last month will stay on for at least another year, the Town Board decided Tuesday.