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The Montauk School District voters easily passed the $18.6 million budget for the 2014-15 school year and elected Jason Biondo during a vote on Tuesday.

The accident took place in front of the East Hampton Town Recycling Center in Montauk on Tuesday afternoon.

In Springs and Sag Harbor School Districts, where the polls didn’t close until 9 on Tuesday evening, the budgets easily passed.

Police made two arrests in recent days of people they say were driving drunk with children as passengers, and in both cases there could be multiple felony charges.

A portion of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike was briefly shut down as officials cleared the road of hazards after two separate accidents in close proximity to each other on that stretch of road Tuesday morning.

Additional help requested from Sag Harbor and East Hampton.

In a scathing decision denouncing the testimony of a retired East Hampton Town justice as “either self-serving or intentionally vague and disingenuous,” a State Supreme Court judge has ordered her to repay $1.045 million plus interest to a former partner of her late husband

The Sagaponack man charged with setting fire to a $34 million Dune Road house in Bridgehampton on April 19 has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial by several doctors, his attorney said.

Sculptures created after bombing over Lockerbie offered as gift to the town

If there’s one thing that stays the same in Hamptons real estate, it’s change. And if any area is getting much-needed change, it’s the commercial zone of the tiny hamlet of Water Mill

East Hampton Town could owe more than $330,000 for a study of the Montauk Inlet by the Army Corps of Engineers — a hefty bill of which town officials were unaware but which recently came to light as part of a lawsuit against the town and the Army Corps

East Hampton Village has instituted a hotline and email address at which residents can lodge complaints about excessive landscaping and construction noise.

A Springs man with a long criminal history is back in jail after a daytime burglary in which he allegedly attacked a 21-year-old woman in Southampton Village Friday morning.

Sean MacPherson, who brought his high-end hotel empire to Montauk in 2010 when he opened the Crow’s Nest Inn and Restaurant, has been told he needs permission for his newest project after running afoul of the East Hampton Town Building Department.

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has introduced legislation that would hold anyone who plants or maintains running bamboo on their property responsible for the cost of removing the invasive species from neighboring properties and repairing any damage the roots, called rhizomes, have caused

A drug that can reverse the effects of life-threatening overdoses of the opioid drugs, like heroin, is now being used by emergency medical service providers throughout Suffolk County and will soon be available to South Fork police departments.

The eye-popping price reportedly paid in the recent sale of 16 acres on Further Lane in East Hampton Village has attracted the most attention, but the status of two historic landmarks on the property is of greater importance to preservation advocate

“The Affair,” a Showtime series for which a pilot was filmed here last fall, has been picked up for a season’s production — good news for its producers, but not so welcome for residents of Amagansett’s Beach Hampton neighborhood.

To real estate agents, Amagansett is made up of four parts: the area north of the highway that includes the Bell Estate and Devon, the Dunes, Napeague, and the Lanes, the picturesque grid bordered by Indian Wells Highway on the west and Atlantic Avenue on the east and running south from the highway to Bluff Road. Most of the oceanfront below Bluff Road is preserved

Spring temperatures are finally here, but that does not mean the water is warm enough for any prolonged exposure.

An elderly driver lost control of his sport utility vehicle causing a four-car accident in downtown Sag Harbor on Tuesday afternoon.

Melville Straus, a longtime champion of Guild Hall as its chairman and a distinguished and successful businessman, died after a long illness with brain cancer on Thursday in New York City.

Bail was set at $25,000 Saturday for a 21-year-old man whom police said was drunk when he struck and killed a bicyclist on County Road 39 in Southampton on Friday evening.

Neither snow nor cold nor the gloom of early nightfall this winter stayed Hamptons real estate agents from completion of their daily rounds

The opt-out movement has grown, with parents across Long Island and New York City banding together to boycott the national Common Core exams.

It took five sessions and as many months, but P.C. Schenck and Sons, got the closure they sought on Friday when the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals decided the firm’s application for 12 AT&T antennas and related equipment had been thoroughly vetted.

Callahan pleaded guilty to securities and wire fraud in connection with his purchase of Montauk’s failing Panoramic View resort

The Montauk beach protection project offered up by the Army Corps of Engineers at a presentation at East Hampton Town Hall proved a disappointment to some hoping for an immediate, large-scale beach reconstruction

Turn used fishing nets into skateboards. An idea that would have seemed utopian green only a few years ago is being brought to fruition by three surfers with engineering degrees and a shared goal of ridding the ocean of plastic pollution.

On a rainy and windy day, Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone took time to hear firsthand about concerns of those in East Hampton and elsewhere on the East End.