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OLA of Eastern Long Island reports that the number of wage theft cases among the Latino community has skyrocketed this year.

OLA of Eastern Long Island, a Latino-focused nonprofit advocacy organization, is helping victims of wage theft, an increasingly common practice in which employers fail to pay wages or provide employee benefits.

With a peaceful demonstration, the Guatemalan community of Long Island wants to show its support for those fighting back home, who have already spent 14 days demanding, among other things, the resignation of the nation's attorney general.

Moses K. Johnson, a 63-year-old former Town of Huntington employee, was charged with grand theft for allegedly continuing to collect his deceased mother's pension for more than a year.

In the face of both long-term climate challenges and disasters, farmworkers shared that their biggest problem is a lack of preparedness. But preparedness, especially for communities like seasonal and migrant farmworker communities, can be a complicated task.

The Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Regional Tick-Borne Disease Center, the first and only of its kind on Long Island, will treat children and adults for tick bites and diagnose tick-borne diseases.

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced the indictment of eight people for their role in an alleged cocaine distribution ring in which packages containing kilograms of cocaine were shipped from Puerto Rico to Long Island via the United States Postal Service and then sold on the streets of Suffolk County.

A Riverhead Middle School student was arrested for having a knife in his possession while attending a session at the educational center.

Police confirmed through a press release that a Riverhead High School student was arrested Friday afternoon for bringing more than a dozen .22 caliber bullets to school.

Suffolk County Police arrested a 12-year-old boy for stabbing a fellow student at Lindenhurst Middle School.