A Risso’s dolphin, one of a larger dolphin species with a distinctive gray body, was found stranded on a sandbar between the end of Louse Point in Springs and Wood Tick Island this week.

The East Hampton Town attorney, Michael Sendlenski, who has helped draft the low-nitrogen septic system and rental registry laws among other legislation since joining the town’s legal team in 2013, announced on Monday that he would be resigning effective May 3.

A 56-year-old Sag Harbor man was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexually abusing a child in Springs in November, East Hampton Town police said.

A 23-year-old Springs man was arrested on rape charges after he sexually abused two East Hampton teens, town police said.

Two men armed with guns tied up a man inside his house in Springs and demanded cash early on Thursday, East Hampton Town police said.

A plan to build a school bus depot on nearly three acres of land adjacent to the recycling center on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton can move forward, the East Hampton Town Planning Board said.

East Hampton Town police arrested two men last week in separate cases of sex abuse.

One of the pivotal members of the Montauk drug ring broken up by police last summer is headed to state prison for six years.

Valerie diLorenzo’s 10-week voice workshops, now at Guild Hall, offer a palpable lift to patients.

Perry Gershon, an East Hampton resident who narrowly lost a race to unseat Lee Zeldin to represent New York’s First Congressional District in November, wants another chance to defeat the third-term Republican.

A plan to extend the terms of leases to land at Lazy Point in Amagansett, where residents own their houses but rent the land beneath from the East Hampton Town Trustees, hit a roadblock during a public hearing on Monday.

“I think this issue about coastal adaptation is going to take some time to work through,” Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said.

Most people don’t know it, but there are cat capers happening right under their noses all over the South Fork.

The expansion of an ongoing project to remove utility poles and relocate the lines underground along a stretch of Old Montauk Highway is now in a wait-and-see mode.

Most of East Hampton Town’s waters were of a high quality and supportive of fisheries in 2018, the town trustees were told on Monday, and some sites that the D.E.C. has closed to shellfishing can be opened.

The settlement was invalid because the town board did not vote on a resolution authorizing it before it was finalized, according to a statement from the town on Friday.

In a tersely worded statement issued Tuesday afternoon, the East Hampton Town Republican Committee announced that it had been unable to persuade G.O.P. county leadership to let candidates who are not registered Republicans appear on the party’s line in the Nov. 5 election.

Andrew D. Hellman, who injured a town police officer in a drunken-driving crash over Labor Day weekend, will enter a drug treatment program.

A 1956 mapping mistake is corrected, following a decade-long effort.

Representatives of Tesla Motors and a company with which it has partnered presented a refined proposal to install an array of electric vehicle charging stations in Montauk to the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday.