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Onondaga County's 427 physician practices pump about $1 billion annually into the local economy by employing 5,947 doctors and staff members, according to a study sponsored by the Onondaga County employs 14 people, with each practice contributing an average of $2.4 million into the economy.

THE FINGER Lakes region in upstate New York is as beautiful as Italy's Tuscany or the Loire Valley, in France.

A boil-water and conservation order has was issued Tuesday for the village of Cayuga and the town of Aurelius Water District 3, which includes residents along state Route 90 in Aurelius, because of cloudy drinking water.

The state has proposed new regulations aimed at limiting the flow of tax-free cigarettes to Indian reservation retailers - a plan that drew a barbed reaction from Central New York's tribes.

Ann Marie Buerkle, a former Syracuse Common Council member who has worked as a nurse and health care lawyer, won the Republican Party's designation Wednesday night in the 25th Congressional District.

Cayuga County Sheriff David Gould said investigators could not determine the cause of a fire that killed a 68-year-old man Feb.

A number of minor accidents around the region were attributed to snow, leading to a call for more manpower in Tompkins County.

Snow covered roads is making driving challenging this morning in the Central New York area.

Two Syracuse-area candidates for state and federal offices received endorsements Thursday night from the Cayuga County Conservative Party.

An Auburn student was indicted on five felony drug trafficking-related charges after authorities said he sold narcotics to a fellow student on a school bus and bus stop, Cayuga County District Attorney Jon Budelmann said today.

The Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn will exhibit the work of Ithaca folk artist Mary Michael Shelley in the second floor galleries from now through April 11.

The New York State Senate Tuesday confirmed three Central New Yorkers to serve on state boards.

Counties across New York state collected on average 5.9 percent less in sales tax in 2009 than they did in 2008, one of the sharpest declines on record, according to a report today from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

ALBANY_ Starting Monday, a new law will go into effect requiring carbon-monoxide detectors in nearly all New York homes, condominiums, dormitories and other residences.

U.S. Mint officials released his presidential coin during a ceremony Thursday in Moravia, the Finger Lakes village that lays claim as the 13th president's birthplace.

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Members of Ithaca's Board of Public Works are charging that Mayor Carolyn Peterson's decision to appoint a committee to oversee construction of a new city water plant could further slow the city's implementation of mandated drinking water regulations, and would over-represent the interests of those selected by the mayor.

Sen. Jeff Klein has joined the push to collect tobacco taxes on Indian lands, filing a friend of the court brief in support of a suit that is attempting to get the Cayuga Indians to start collecting the cigarette taxes.