The boys basketball season began here with three straight nonleague wins at home, then things got worse — the last home win was over Rocky Point on Dec. 16 — before they got better.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s girls winter track team coach, said the 4-by-400 relay team of Bella Espinoza, Ava Engstrom, Penelope Greene, and Lillie Minskoff would have broken a school record in that event absent a disqualifying out-of-the-lane baton pass at the county small schools meet Friday.

Saturday takes the Bonac wrestlers to the league meet at Eastport-South Manor and the boys swimmers to the county meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, where the winter track state qualifier happens Monday night.

There is another Long Island bird count that follows on the heels of the annual longstanding Christmas count. It’s the winter waterfowl count that happens at about this time every year.

Just in time to help would-be quitters keep their new year's resolutions to stop smoking, Suffolk County's Department of Health Services is offering smoking cessation classes at various locations throughout the county through the end of April.

Skylar Day's sensibilities are at once dusty boots and folk music and the fiery power chords of a heavy metal guitar player in the band Gravitywell.

Bill Morrison’s “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” an "instantaneously recognizable masterpiece,” will have its Long Island premiere on Feb. 16 at Bay Street Theater.

Hiroyuki Hamada’s paintings reveal an emotive and sometimes even gestural approach that seems at odds with his more considered and restrained sculptures.

Flying in and out of J.F.K. on JetBlue at ungodly hours in both directions gave me the excuse I wanted to stay (and dine) at the TWA Hotel. Twice.

On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, HamptonsFilm will screen Roland Joffe’s “The Mission,” from 1986, which received seven Oscar nominations, including a win for cinematography. A conversation with Alec Baldwin will follow.

The South Fork's top dining establishments offer prix fixe and a la carte options for Valentine's Day and wine classes.

A film on Clyfford Still at the Parrish, East End artists in New York and abroad, and a call for artists.

Comedy, theater, music, and the return of Zima!

Cristina Alger’s latest crime novel imagines an East End answer to Jeffrey Epstein and two underage Latina murder victims as it explores class inequities in the realms of law enforcement and justice.

New York State's new laws when it comes to evidence being turned over to the defense were brought into focus during a court conference Monday for Joseph Grippo, the man accused of killing Robert Casado with a pickaxe in Montauk last June. 

Police are looking for the public's help in identifying a man captured on surveillance video at one of two houses that were broken into in East Hampton on Thursday night. 

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s commissioner announced on Friday the detection of a coccidian parasite in a sample of bay scallops collected from the Peconic Bays, which is believed to have contributed to the massive die-off discovered in the fall of 2019.

The village will sell only 3,100 nonresident beach permits, which provide for parking access at Main, Georgica, Egypt, Two Mile Hollow, and Wiborg Beaches.

What's happening for kids on the South Fork this week? Find out here.

New York State is gradually phasing in a boating safety rule that will require all powerboat operators to have a certificate by Jan. 1, 2025.