Essex County News

A search is underway in Essex County, New York for a possible plane crash. State police say they received a report on Monday of a possible downed plane in the town of Newcomb.

Essex County officials are finding it hard to keep tax rates down as they review anticipated spending for the next two years.

Authorities say a small plane with two people on board has crashed in the Adirondacks and a rescue operation is under way to reach the remote crash site.

Police say a search is resuming in the Adirondacks after authorities received a report of a possible plane crash in a remote section of the region.

Dozens of local officials and community members from Essex County went to the State Capitol Tuesday to rally support for state funding of crucial bridge and roadway projects.

Inside the John Brown Farm historic site is the wood stove and rope-bed typical of rural life in the mid-1800s. The rooms are much the same as the Brown family kept them in 1859, when his body was brought back from Harper's Ferry.

The town of Moriah has declared an old police car surplus and donated it to the school for use as a driver education vehicle.

Residents are supposed to learn out the fate of their village Thursday, but based on how things have gone so far, they may have to wait longer.

Essex farmer Sandy Lewis has been a gadfly and legal antagonist extraordinaire in the North Country for years -- and his primary target has been the Adirondack Park Agency.

New York state Sen. Elizabeth Little said the sudden closure of an unstable, half-mile bridge spanning Lake Champlain in Essex County is isolating the communities that rely on it and harming nearby businesses.

Officials in Essex County are threatening New York State with a lawsuit for what they say has been poor stewardship of the Lake Champlain Bridge in Crown Point.

It's been nearly eight months since a pre-dawn fire swept through a group home here, killing four of nine residents and putting the state's vast system of housing for the disabled under a microscope.

The legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine is a ballot initiative that many New Yorkers are watching.

Two longtime town supervisors in Essex County lost by narrow margins in Tuesday's general election.

The race between the candidates for Essex County District Attorney is still too close to call after Election Day.::: Unofficial results reported after polls closed Nov.

ADDISON - Frustrated residents of communities near the Lake Champlain Bridge learned during a public hearing Tuesday it would likely take until at least next spring or summer to reopen the fragile span.

The friends and members of the First Congregational Church of Crown Point are planning their third annual Veteran's Recognition and Appreciation Sunday on Sunday, Nov.

An Essex County judge has refused an attempt to dismiss an indictment against a man who fatally shot a fellow hunter last fall.

The three men running for Essex County sheriff faced off Tuesday night over the new jail and its budget.

A Keeseville man has been charged with sexually abusing a 5-year-old child. State Police based in Keeseville arrested Warren Brant, 27, at about noon Wednesday and charged him with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.