Lake Ronkonkoma Beach in the Town of Islip has been closed to bathing as a result of higher than acceptable levels of blue-green algae, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services said Wednesday.

LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Lake Ronkonkoma has re-opened, after being closed to swimming for five days due to elevated levels of a blue-green algae. The state re-opened the lake because ...

Ronkonkoma Beach is closed to bathing Thursday because of elevated bacteria levels, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services announced. “Bathing in bacteria-contaminated water can result in ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Long Island taxpayers have become fed up with pollution and trash at their once favorite beach. Suffolk County residents have been told that swimming is now off-limits in ...

The summers when 20 th century celebrities such as Greta Garbo and Jackie Gleason frequented the beach resorts that hugged the shores of Lake Ronkonkoma are long gone. Now the pavilions have vanished, ...

Once a summer paradise, Lake Ronkonkoma is in trouble, and it has nothing to do with Native American folklore. Locals say saving it will take unity — and urgency. On a bright summer morning, sunlight ...

Lake Ronkonkoma was a Long Island destination for the well-off in New York City in the 1920s. Those days are long gone. By the 1970s, the lure of beach huts had worn off, and the area’s dense ...