Utica News

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.

A prominent educator, author and civic leader from the Mohawk Valley passed away on Tuesday at the age of 67.

Thursday is last call for the New York State Fair's annual Home Brew Competition, promoters remind those interested in entering.

A Utica man was found with a stolen gun and bulletproof vest after he was reportedly waiving a gun out of his car window.

What do you do with a 141-mile stretch of rail bed that cuts through one of the nation's greatest parks? Revive the rail, or build a trail? Fans of each of those options have staked out their case, and could probably keep arguing until the moose come home.

When Cindy and David Morgan closed their Utica restaurant for the day on March 20, 2006, the couple was about a year away from being kicked out of their space on the Erie Canal for not paying rent.

He's a world-renowned jazz musician with a passion for the Mohawk Valley. Bill Jacobs has traveled the world playing his music, but this summer, he'll be teaching students and he'll be doing it here... On January 21, 2011, Matias Ferreira was in the US Marine Corps.

Associate Dean for Nursing Pamela Fess at MVCC in Utica felt that the 2012 first-time passage rate for the national licensing exam to become an RN could be higher, that they needed to be higher.

The New York State Department of Transportation announced that the Route 5,8,12 southbound ramp to State Street will be closed for the next eight weeks for bridge joint replacement.

The United Way of the Valley and Greater Utica Area is distributing more than 7,000 diapers and supplies to nine service programs in Herkimer and Oneida Counties as part of Friday's Day of Caring.