In fact, if you quantify them simply in terms of words, Lincoln’s writings and speeches number 1,078,365. This compares to 926,877 words in the Bible, and 1,025,000 in the works of Shakespeare. But it ...

Chef Jerry Dicecco hosted the Riverhead Middle School French Club for a culinary field trip, serving up frog legs, escargot, and more to 8th graders.

A head-on crash between a mini school bus and an SUV in Calverton yesterday afternoon sent seven people to the hospital, including two children. All injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Riverhead Town police are seeking the public’s help to identify a woman accused of stealing about $560 in merchandise from Marshalls on Old Country Road on Dec. 11.

Walmart plans to convert its Riverhead store into a 180,000-square-foot supercenter with a full-service supermarket and a discount department store.

Riverhead, Southampton and Brookhaven filed suit in Albany County seeking to void two Cannabis Control Board advisory opinions and invalidate state cannabis regulations they say unlawfully preempt ...

James Michael Nunemaker of Southold died Feb. 5, 2026, at home. He was 76 years old.

Snow drifts of more than 7 ft. on some roads caused about 50 vehicles to become stranded, requiring rescue last night, according to Riverhead officials.

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The Summerwind Farm subdivision would create 13 single-family lots, two agricultural lots and a recharge basin lot on 30 acres off Peconic Bay Blvd. near Reeves Creek.

Proposed changes to New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, dominated the discussion during State Sen. Anthony Palumbo’s annual “environmental roundtable” Monday in Riverhead.