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.

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 payment, which county officials said was due March 31, comes from revenue from video slot machines at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Police are seeking the public's help to identify an armed man who they believe stalked a 10-year-old girl in Rockville Centre and has been seen near Francis F. Wilson Elementary School in the village.

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.

As Joshua Romoff stood in the Town of Oyster Bay's parking garage in Hicksville on a recent night -- near orange pylons and plastic fencing that blocked off parking spaces from concrete falling from the cracked ceiling -- he said he understood why the town must temporarily close the structure this summer for repairs. But he's still mad -- really mad.

Nicolas Vigliotti, who time and again defied the odds of his rare genetic disorder, remained positive even after he was turned down by donor centers for a lung transplant his doctors said he needed to survive.

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