Utica News

Voters in area school districts will be taking to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether or not proposed budgets will be accepted, and who will be selected to fill open school board positions.

Scott Shatraw, president of The Stanley Center for the Arts Board of Directors, announced Tuesday the appointment of Jerry Kraus as The Stanley's new Executive Director starting June 1. Kraus will be stepping down as the face of the Stevens-Swan Humane Society where he had held the post of Public Relations and Development Director.

A father and son are both facing charges after an incident on Kossuth Ave in Utica on Thursday night.

Information regarding male child born 1/11/1968 in Oneida County, Utica, NY. He was adopted to a family that moved to Texas.

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced his plan to extend tax treatment afforded to film producers and music publishers to investors in live theatre.

The JCC always has something going on and their annual Summer Camp kicks off for toddlers aged 3-6 on July 8 and runs six weeks until August 16th.

Perhaps it comes from watching too many movies or too few, but those who are wanted by the police sometimes turn to Facebook to offer a "na, na, na-na, na." A couple of years ago, a man in Utica, N.Y., allegedly tried to dare the police to catch him, with troubling results .

Congressman Richard Hanna stopped by Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute on Saturday and will be taking some artwork with him back to Washington.

A Utica man is facing felony arson charges following a fire a business early Saturday morning.

On Friday, hundreds of people from Central New York hopped on their bicycles and rode for about 90 miles to raise awareness for the thousands of missing children throughout America.

The city of Utica, New York is reportedly the "front-runner" to be the home of the Vancouver Canucks-owned American Hockey League franchise.

A wayward cow's dip in a central New York pond ends with the animal being lassoed by several volunteer "cowboys." Police in the town of New Hartford say a farmer was transporting four cows in a trailer when 1 of them got loose Thursday afternoon along a busy stretch of Route 5 outside Utica.

We were first introduced to Dunder Mifflin Paper eight years ago on NBC's The Office, but our fascination with the cast and company doesn't have to end with the series.

Riders brought their bikes to the Valentino Banquet Hall in Washington Mills, on Thursday, in preparation for the 17th annual "Ride For Missing Children." What started out as seven men biking from Utica to Washington D.C. In 1995 has expanded tremendously over the past seventeen years to four hundred and eighty riders.

A rally held in downtown Utica on Thursday pushed the Governor's ten-point Women's Equality Act.

A cab driver tells police that he saw a vehicle window shot out at what was allegedly a birthday party in Utica.

Amid a large fight on a Utica playground, police say a teen was cut with a machete.

The Davis Motel in Utica will remain closed after the owner is denied a use variance.

The Reverend Bill Dodge has stepped down from his position as executive director at the Rescue Mission of Utica.

On Monday, the New York State Assembly voted 82 to 53 in favor of the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, and it is now in the hands of the State Senate.