A New York City man was identified as the operator of a Kawasaki motorcycle that hit a tree in Water Mill on Saturday afternoon.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said Friday that eight more people in the county had died from COVID-19. There are now 331 cases across Suffolk.

The state revised an executive order on Friday to halt all nonessential construction during the coronavirus pandemic. 

An order by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has extended the distance-learning measure at least until April 15.

Ed Porco, a former Montauk resident who had been living at Peconic Landing on the North Fork with his wife, Joan, died of Covid-19 on Tuesday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Restaurants here are showing their gratitude for health care workers and first responders by offering them discounts and even free meals.

The South Fork Commuter Connection train and bus service, two east and two westbound Long Island Rail Road trains and the “last mile” shuttle service that takes commuters to commercial centers on weekdays, will suspend service effective Friday. 

Unable to sell a 1,000-pound catch of fluke last week, Capt. Chuck Morici of the dragger Act 1 spent three days filleting the fish at Montauk commercial dock and offering it for free straight from his boat. On Saturday morning, he gave it away from the back of his pickup truck in downtown Montauk, a big handwritten sign announcing, “Free Fish.”