Port Jefferson Village officials have approved a budget that increases taxes by a little less than 2 percent, Mayor Margot Garant said recently.

Nearly 50,000 cubic yards of material from the demolished Tappan Zee Bridge as well as decommissioned vessels are to be submerged in waters around Long Island.

What is "the Oyster Bay way?"

Nearly 92,000 students in grades three through eight refused to take the test in 115 of the region's 124 districts that responded to Newsday's query.

The Hempstead school board on Monday night approved the district's $215 million-plus budget proposal for the 2018-19 academic year -- the panel's first spending plan since the state appointed a special consultant to help turn around the struggling system.

The ruling stemmed from what she claimed was negligence on the part of the utility that led to the damage of more than $7,000 in electrical equipment and appliances in her home.

A Suffolk legislature committee Monday unanimously approved spending $1.9 million to buy 11.21 acres in the heart of Jamesport to create a hamlet park there.

An employee of a Bay Shore company was alert and talking to emergency workers after he was struck by lightning, police said.

Town of Huntington officials will receive more state funds to complete the transformation of a former armory site in Huntington Station into a community center.

National Grid has opened a facility in Brentwood that is its first Consumer Advocacy Outreach Center, aimed at providing services for income-eligible and other vulnerable customers.

Nassau police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said 52 overdoses, one fatal, were reported in the targeted area in Nassau since the beginning of 2017.

The heavy rain opened up a sinkhole in Westbury, making for a "potentially very dangerous situation," Mayor Peter Cavallaro said in an alert to residents.

Northwell Health is spending $4.7 million to place four efficient cooling systems on Huntington Hospital's roof above the north wing of the facility.

Portions of the bluffs in Montauk collapsed onto the beach below, making a popular hiking trail there difficult to navigate following the March nor'easters that battered the region.

Frustrated Nesconset residents recently demanded a temporary halt to commercial development along Smithtown Boulevard -- a request Smithtown Supervisor Edward Wehrheim said he could not grant.

Six Democratic primary candidates will debate Tuesday around the corner from Rep. Lee Zeldin's district office about which has the best chance to unseat the Shirley Republican in November.

A 37-year-old woman was struck and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train near Speonk, the railroad said.

The Max and Rosie Teich Homestead in Huntington Station has been given local historic landmark designation.