Upstate new York news

New York State officials believe a new law is going to crackdown on those annoying unwanted calls.

Do New York parks require you to pay money for stargazing? Some do, yes! It's true, in 2020, six public parks in New York began requiring you to have a permit if you want to come to the park "after hours" to enjoy some nighttime stargazing...

This seems like a plotline from a Hollywood script, or perhaps even the type of  Budweiser beer commercial that leaves you balling your eyes out during the Super Bowl. A wayward doggie, who went disappeared at the end of January turned up recently in Niagara Falls, New York weeks after he went missing in Killeen, Texas.  ...

A dog trainer in New York claims that he was sexually molested by a female bigfoot in one of the most bizarre (NSFW) 5-minute videos I've ever seen. Apparently, this video has been floating around the internet for a while now, viewed more than a million times...

The life and work of a New York State Trooper can change as rapidly as the weather does here in New York.  One day you might be chasing bad guys going 100 MPH, the next you could be rescuing an injured owl on the side of the road, later that day you might be helping an old lady fix a flat tire stranded on Route 9.  We...

Perhaps we oughta call these men the real Duck Dynasty or how about, wait for it..... Duck, Duck Sleuths? A family of ducks trying to cross a portion of I-87 in Albany ended up in a storm drain, stranded without their mom and probably had little chance for survival had it not been for the heroic action of a couple of New York State Troopers on Friday. ...

Some people who have already been to the Great Escape in Lake George this spring have snapped photos of this nostalgic attraction, hoping to preserve a childhood memory.  Right now it just looks as if it's "temporarily closed," but this oldie but goodie is permanently retired.

The firm handling complaint messages and emails left by vexed New Yorkers say they've been inundated with claims against the much maligned Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo.  The voicemails and emails - estimated to be in the hundreds - will take months to listen to and read.  Once that work is done, the firm handling the investigation could, in theory, begin the process of attempting to im

Imagine trying to get in the front door to your home, car, or in this case a hunting cabin, only to learn that someone had rigged it to explode upon opening.  Something like this would be terrifying at the least, catastrophic - or perhaps even deadly - at the worst.  But that's what happened when the owners of an Adirondack cabin tried get inside.  As a result, one Rotterdam man has been arrested,