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.

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.

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.

A Lindenhurst man who left a "threatening" phone message for an official at a Rockland County school he attended in 2002 was arrested after police found nine illegal guns at his home, Suffolk police said.

The son of the herdsman at what became Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park in Great River, Gilbert Bergen embodied the politeness, kindness, discipline and sportsmanship expected of the gentry.

A West Virginia man faces multiple weapons-possession charges after he was found with several handguns at a Riverhead motel, police said Sunday.

A Blue Point man was charged with driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning after he crashed his car into the garage of a house in Bayport and fled the scene, Suffolk County police said.

Patchogue officials last week celebrated the opening of a $34 million senior living facility, marking a change in character along Main Street for a village that had focused on attracting young adults and artists.

Richard Albano wept while watching his dream home burn to the ground last month. Now he says he will use photographs and floor plans to rebuild the historic Ebo Hill mansion.