Orleans County News

The third suspect in the homicide case of a Rochester convenience store owner pleaded guilty in court today.

The federal minimum wage went up Thursday. The 70 cent increase brings the minimum wage up to $6.55 an hour.

New York State Police in Albion arrested 48-year-old Richard Galante of Getzville and charged with him with first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a class E felony.

The former Fletcher Chapel Road man accused of burglarizing four Orleans County homes two summers ago has been sentenced to seven years in state prison.

A 64-year-old man who led Orleans County sheriff's deputies on a 30-minute chase on Lake Ontario last weekend after they attempted to inspect his personal watercraft is facing numerous charges after he was ...

The summer quarterly meeting of the Niagara Frontier Association of Village Officials convened at the Medina Shirt Factory Cafe Wednesday evening.

A worker at an Orleans County sewage treatment plant is recovering after being overcome by fumes from a chlorine leak.

The Monroe County Haz-mat team has responded to a chemical spill at the Orleans County Department of Public Works located just beyond the Monroe County line in Holley.

Plum pox, a viral disease that can devastate stone fruit orchards by deforming crops and slowly crippling host trees, has been detected for the first time in Wayne County.

It's the plum pox virus, which has shown up in some fruit trees. A virus that affects certain kinds of fruit has been detected in another Western NY county.

Wireless-backhaul vendor Exalt Communication yesterday announced that Orleans County, N.Y., has deployed its 4.9 GHz solution to replace a microwave system that the county opted to discontinue after less than a ...

Orleans County has joined the state NY-Alert emergency notification system as an added means of alerting residents in the event of an emergency.

Sixty-two years of agricultural tradition will continue with the Orleans County 4-H Fair July 21 to the 26.

A Lyndonville man objects to a proposed smoking ban on county owned property. Nonsmoker Paul Lauricello believes the would-be policy is yet another infringement on a citizen's personal freedoms, he told the ...

County officials have established a set of guidelines county departments should use as they prepare their 2009 budget requests.

Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks announced Wednesday that the county would not appeal a lawsuit over sales tax revenue and would instead negotiate a timeline to pay suburban school districts the $29 ...

The Genesee-Orleans Ministry of Concern will kick off its third annual Back to School Supply Drive today.

The following earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouting, after completing their projects.

Several fire companies have responded to a report of a house fire at 1827 Kendall Road in Kendall, Orleans County.

A man is homeless after fire tore through his one-room bungalow at 15862 State Route 31 in this Town of Murray hamlet about 7:30 a. m. Wednesday, Orleans County sheriff's deputies said.