Hamilton County News

In September's local primary elections, a couple of races were so close, they had to be decided by absentee ballots.

Plans to relocate a power line in St. Lawrence County may involve only six acres of remote Adirondack land.

UC is represented among more than 80 national and regional authors at the Oct. 17 Books by the Banks book festival downtown.

CHEERS to the National Park Service for its Scenic Byways program, which produces brochures to ballyhoo localities' assets to potential tourists.

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake will participate in a statewide effort to raise awareness about domestic violence this Saturday, Oct.

Local professional photographer Bill Killon will host the 2009 Community Photo Festival at the Indian Lake Theatre on Oct.

The Village of Port Henry is embarking on the first step toward a vote that would end the village as a municipality.

Daniel O'Malley, of the Cincinnati Police Department's District 1, looks at the city's skyline.

Police say a woman has been arrested for allegedly spanking another person's 2-year-old son in a Cincinnati store.

A new healing retreat for women living with cancer and other chronic diseases will be offered this fall.

The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students.

The budget crisis deepens in Hamilton County and now two of the county's top officials say the crisis is about to have a direct effect on public safety.

Allpro Parking LLC, a Buffalo, N.Y., parking management firm, has landed its first deal in Cincinnati, marking its entry into the Midwest.

The controversial State Land Master Plan - the basis of almost all regulatory decisions that occur in the Adirondacks - is now up for revision, and officials of both local government and environmental organizations said this week that the time has come to begin a discussion that has been anticipated for years.

An Otisco man died Saturday afternoon at Raquette Lake while operating a personal watercraft with his two teenage sons, according to state police in Hamilton County.

An Otisco man died Saturday afternoon at Raquette Lake while operating a personal watercraft with his two teenage sons, according to state police in Hamilton County.

The on-line journalism project ProPublica has compiled some detailed break-downs of how President Barack Obama's stimulus money is being spent.

Density, density, density. It's something of a mantra in sustainable transportation circles.

The 11 Democratic county chairmen in the 23rd Congressional District are expected to select one of the 11 candidates interested in U.S. Rep.

An 11-year-old boy has been accused of trying to hijack two boys' scooters with a toy gun in an Ohio park.