Cayuga County

More than $4 million in grant funding is coming to the Finger Lakes area to help improve emergency communications. State Senator Pam Helming announced millions in grant awards to the six counties she represents to ... more

The town of Aurelius plans to make renovations to the New York state police station in hopes that the state will renew its 20-year lease of the building for another 10 years. Over 20 years ... more

Corrections officers at Auburn Correctional Facility discovered drugs in packages mailed to an inmate at the prison on Wednesday. According to a press release from the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, ... more

FLX Weather Meteorologist Drew Montreuil says the first half of this week will be quiet, and cool, but changes are on the way. - By Wednesday temperatures will be moving through the 40s and into ... more

The Auburn boys basketball team may be without one of its leading scorers after senior Majesty Wilder was removed from the team Tuesday. Al Brown, Wilder's stepfather, said the senior was one of three students ... more

The village of Aurora held a public meeting Saturday to discuss solutions to the threat of harmful algal blooms in Cayuga Lake. Stephen Waldvogel of GHD Consulting Services Inc. was present to discuss results of ... more

An Auburn man was arrested by police following an investigation into a domestic incident on Sheridan Street. Police say the incident took place on Sunday around 3:15 a.m. when authorities were called to the scene ... more

Senator Pam Helming, Senate Chair of the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, held a Farm Brewery Roundtable in Albany on Wednesday, January 31, drawing nearly 60 stakeholders from across New York to the State’s capital ... more

Deputies say a Newark duo was charged with falsely reporting an incident after an accident at the intersection of State Routes 414 and 318 late-last month. Sacha Santana, 32, and Richard Barnes, 34, were each ... more

An Auburn prison guard has been accused of waterboarding two inmates and brutally beaten ghtem in their genitals in two separate incidents, according to a report by New York Daily News. Lt. Troy Mitchell, a ... more

Over 100 princesses held court at the Fingerlakes Mall in Aurelius Saturday. The Princess for a Day event event featured young girls decked out as either royalty from Disney films or in their own regal ... more

Dale Smith is always alert. From the driver's seat of his 27-ton city plow truck, his eyes bounce between watching what's in front of him on the road and looking in his mirrors for what's ... more

A Webster man is facing criminal charges after admitting to illegally possessing a pistol and some marijuana during a traffic stop Friday, state police said. Zachary F. Sharlow, 33, was charged with third-degree possession of ... more

Weedsport and Port Bryon fire departments were called to the scene of a tractor-trailer fire near mile marker 298 overnight. The incident happened in the eastbound lane and was put out within around 30 minutes, ... more

Since at least September the Cayuga County Legislature has considered joining a multi-county lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies selling opioids. This month, it may actually do so. The lawsuit, which was originally filed by Nassau County, ... more

The Cayuga County Sheriff's Office is searching for a missing Town of Brutus woman Thursday evening. Deputies said Ashley Vroman,26, was reported missing by a family member. Vrooman lives in the County Line Trailer Park ... more

The city of Auburn identified 12 areas in the community that will benefit from its 2018-2019 Community Development Block Grant funding from the federal government. The funding, which the city has received from the U.S ... more

The village of Aurora is holding a public meeting on water issues Saturday, with the attendance of an engineering firm and representatives from the Cayuga County Department of Health and the Cayuga County Water and ... more

A 35-year-old man will spend the next two years in prison for attempted rape and possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child in the village of Weedsport. Jason Stein was one of 11 people ... more

Graduation rates for most Cayuga County-area high schools dropped from last year, according to data released by the state education department Wednesday. The department laid out the high school graduation rates for each district in ... more

On Episode #18 of The Debrief Podcast Jackie Augustine and Josh Durso debate school start times, tablets in prison, the appointment of a deputy supervisor in Canandaigua, and a controversial property on Linden Street in ... more