Long Island News

Previously Published in The Messenger By Raheem Soto Earlier this week, the Suffolk County Legislature’s Labor and Consumer Affairs Committee advanced IR 1542-2025, a measure designed to close loopholes in regulating board-up businesses that operate […]

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Corrections Intelligence Center (CIC) entered into a partnership with Fermata Discovery’s VIXN platform. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in leveraging corrections-based intelligence to enhance safety inside facilities […]

By Hank Russell The next phase in the modernization of Nesconset Highway (State Route 347) has begun. Work is underway — several months ahead of schedule — on a project to upgrade and reconstruct a […]

An apartment fire broke out in Woodbury, leaving one firefighter hospitalized. On August 26 at 12:51 a.m., Nassau County officers from the Arson Bomb Squad responded to Fairhaven Apartments for a fire located at 106 […]

Pol Wants to Know Why By Hank Russell A local elected official is calling on the cable company to explain why the town’s government access channel has been moved from Channel 18 to Channel 1310. […]

Two people were injured when a conveyor belt fell on top of them at a recycling facility in Oceanside. Nassau County Fourth Precinct Officers responded to Earth-Tec Recycling, located at 495 Wood Street, on August […]

Newly released test results from Nassau County’s Department of Health are illustrating how the comprehensive plan for addressing water contamination at Crescent Beach in Glen Cove is yielding significant improvements — placing the beach on […]

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced swimming will resume at all Long Island State Park Ocean beaches now that rough surf conditions and flooding resulting from Hurricane Erin have mostly subsided. Visitors may encounter restrictions in […]

Nassau County police and local fire departments responded to a house fire that occurred in East Rockaway. On August 23 at 4:05 p.m., officers responded to a 3rd Avenue residence for a house fire. The […]

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the drowning death of a man at the ocean beach of Sailors Haven.  Ishmoile Mohammed was swimming in the ocean on August 23 when he got caught […]