Essex County News

Essex County may soon hire someone to investigate compliance with the county's occupancy-tax law.

Essex County may soon hire someone to investigate compliance with the county's occupancy-tax law.

A local woman was jailed earlier this week after she allegedly failed to update her sex-offender registry.

Bed-tax cop a possibility: Supervisors suspect some hotels are lax in reporting Jul.

It's going to be a rainy, muggy couple of days. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for much of the Northeast, including upstate New York, as tropical moisture moves along a front that has ...

TICONDEROGA u A teenager taking part in a fishing tournament on Lake Champlain drowned Saturday evening after falling from a boat, Ticonderoga Police said.

Sales tax collections by north country counties rose more than 4 percent in 2007 over the previous year.

When the price of gasoline started escalating, past $2 a gallon, on to $3 and, at last look, beyond $4, people everywhere lamented that it was going to cost them more to drive than perhaps the trip was worth.

Higher gas prices haven't had a huge impact on Adirondack tourism just yet. Tourism officials like Lake Placid-Essex County Visitors Bureau President James McKenna say they're being "cautiously optimistic" that ...

A night of fun turns to disaster after fireworks hit spectators and workers at a Friday Night fireworks display in Ticonderoga.

Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward said she's working hard on setting up a safety net for people who can't pay heating bills this winter.

Essex County lawmakers are balking at paying additional communications costs for the county's Enhanced 911 system.

The doctor shortage in the Adirondacks has become so acute that Adirondack Medical Center it may not be able to keep its emergency room in Lake Placid open every night this summer.

A former police officer from Essex County will spend 10 years on probation after he admitted having sexual relations with an 8-year-old girl.

Essex County, home to world-famous Lake Placid and historic Ticonderoga, as well as picturesque lakes and majestic mountains, is one of America's great tourist destinations.

' A group of about 70 fifth-graders, 20 chaperones and four teachers left Mayfield Elementary School Wednesday morning for a three-day Adirondack wilderness trip that has been a tradition at the school for 30 ...

Amid high temperatures and humidity last week, authorities were shocked to find more than a dozen cats left at a Willsboro home without any food or water.

Destination Marketing OK, I'm kinda sorta excited in a ho-hum "land n' leave" sort of way.

Essex County lawmakers say an offer to pay for Sheriff's Department foot patrols in Keeseville's downtown needs further review.

A multimillionaire heir to the Bacardi rum fortune has been ordered to pay his ex-wife alimony dating back to October.