Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday the New York Fresh Connect Farmers' Markets (FreshConnect) program. It launches new farmers markets and expands others around the state by increasing the sale of locally-grown food.
New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli proposed Tuesday establishing a fund supported by fees from drillers to clean up environmental damage from natural gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
As the baby boomer population ages, Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero says his office is bracing for an increase in cases where Alzheimer’s patients and other at-risk adults go missing.
“We’re all anticipating a large growth in senior cases,” said Povero. “We’re hoping for the best and planning for the worst, but we might see more unfortunate situations.”
For the first time ever, the FBI has designed an app that is now available for the iPhone. The "Child ID" app is a free download that allows users to upload a child's picture, physical description and other personal details to assist in AMBER Alert situations.
The New York Farm Bureau today praised a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that extends the same legal protections and tax assessment benefits to commercial equine operations that commercial horse boarding operations currently have.
Millions of people around the world were glued to their TV sets as their rescue unfolded during a live broadcast… we loved Lucy and still do.
Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of Lucille Ball's birth and 60 years since "I Love Lucy" first aired.
State Police announced that Monday begins Speed Week, a traffic enforcement campaign, Aug. 8-14.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is in the midst of largest health survey it has ever conducted – and one of the largest surveys of its kind in the U.S.
A portion of a highway and a bridge is being renamed in honor of a fallen western New York Marine.
Standard & Poor's has downgraded the United States' credit rating first time in the history of the ratings.
Corrado Piccoli’s sisters believed one of their other siblings had his Purple Heart. So it was a shock when a Vermont Army National Guard officer showed up at Mary Piccoli’s door one day, telling her he had the medal, awarded posthumously after her brother was killed in action during World War II.
PathStone recently received nearly $9.4 million for career training and housing assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
In 2010, then-Gov. David Paterson proposed abolishing the more than 50-year-old Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority in Henrietta, merging it with Empire State Development, and using the authority’s surpluses to help eliminate the state deficit. After advocacy by local Assemblyman Joe Morelle, D-Irondequoit, the authority avoided abolishment by agreeing to change its management structure and redistribute its “considerable” fund surpluses, which Morelle estimated to be at least $13 million.
Gripped by fear of another recession, the financial markets suffered their worst day Thursday since the crisis of 2008. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points, its ninth-steepest decline ever.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Thursday that will allow New York to increase its power production and provide low-interest loans to homeowners and businesses for the cost of energy efficiency projects.
A decision has been made regarding the request to throw out the Eric Massa campaign lawsuit. On Thursday, State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Fisher denied the request.
Hospitals in the Finger Lakes region, as a group, are the third largest employer in the region, generating $4.9 billion in economic activity, according to a report released by the Healthcare Association of New York State.
Virginia Tech was locked down Thursday when three children attending a summer camp said they saw a man holding what looked like a gun, an unsettling report on the campus where a 2007 massacre left 33 people dead.
Three Ontario County men whose bicycle trip ended with a traffic accident 25 years ago visited Mississippi this week after resuming their ride.
One of the myths surrounding the 33 miners who were so dramatically rescued after being trapped for 69 days deep inside a Chilean copper mine is that they’re all millionaires and no longer need to work.
