Three months after Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have provided for reinstatement and acknowledgement of the Montaukett Indian Nation, the New York State Assembly unanimously passed a new bill to that end.

In the last few years, e-bikes have exploded in popularity, and the surge has caused some safety issues. Many municipalities, East Hampton Town among them, intend to implement new laws to keep up.

Rising temperature and chlorophyll, decreasing salinity, high nitrogen levels, dense blooms of Alexandrium and Dinophysis, blue-green algal blooms, and some fecal contamination characterized town water bodies in 2025, according to Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University.

Reports of a suspicious vehicle in Montauk on Saturday night turned out to be several Patchogue residents having dinner alfresco and stargazing.

An East Hampton man was charged late last week with multiple counts of rape in what police say was child abuse involving a girl who was 10 years old when it began.

East Hampton Village police arrested a man on Saturday night they say was driving while intoxicated with a child in the vehicle, a felony.

At a workshop on Tuesday, the Montauk School Board discussed the district’s tax levy for the 2026-27 school year and also plans for a capital project approved by voters in December.

The East Hampton School Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt three bond propositions — worth roughly $128 million — that will appear on the May 19 ballot along with the annual school budget.

East Hampton Middle School’s Do Good Be Good Club delivered much-needed towels for the dogs and cats at the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Adoption Center in Wainscott.

The Ross School’s spring musical is the only performance of its kind on the South Fork. Rather than putting on separate middle and high school shows, Ross brings its sixth through 12th graders together for one big weekend of singing, acting, and dance.

Scores of municipalities from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania have tightened enforcement and strengthened so-called pooper-scooper laws after the brown stuff, like, bloomed out of the melting snow, causing public outcry.

Adam Potter’s frequently derided plan to build an 81,257-square-foot mixed-use building on Bridge Street in Sag Harbor found its way to the village zoning board of appeals this week, where several residents spoke out against the proposed redevelopment of the lots.

As summer traffic season nears, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council is asking the question that everyone else is thinking: Is there any way to ease some of the congestion on the most traveled routes on the East End? As it turns out, the council has some ideas, and they include expanding ferry service.

Hugh King, the town and village historian, will tell the story of East Hampton’s first performing arts venue on March 27 at 7 p.m. for the next Tom Twomey lecture at the library.

The East Hampton Methodist Church’s pastor, Kenny McQuiller, a cancer survivor himself, will be at the helm of a new cancer care ministry that the church is launching this week.

On deer, potholes, and, interestingly, A.I. in fantasy baseball.

Americans should pay close attention to the disturbing tactics being used by the White House and Pentagon to punish news outlets that stray from the federal government’s approved talking points.

Art that can be seen and appreciated by people passing by is largely limited to private property.

In California I finally got inside a robotaxi. It was terrific.

I moved to Alphabet City in the depths of the crack epidemic.