Upstate new York news

One famous spot in the Empire State has been selected as a 2026 Winter Olympics back-up site.

If you're a Verizon customer using an Apple cell phone in New York State on Monday, you may have been experiencing issues with your service. Here's what's going on.

Residents in Greene County have been on high alert after a powerful storm - possibly a tornado - ripped through the Village Coxsackie on Wednesday afternoon.  Power outages along with extensive damage is being reported throughout town as dozens of trees were uprooted and many electrical lines destroyed.  Ma...

The Adirondack Outlaw, the new thrill ride at the Great Escape in Lake George, finally opened and people with very strong stomach's had a chance to go on it over the holiday weekend. First off, I will tell you that as a kid, I loved these kinds of intense rides. ...

Surveillance video in downtown Saratoga captured the horrifying moment when a motorcycle smashed into an unsuspecting vehicle in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 24th.  In the :21 second video clip shared by the Saratoga Springs Police Department, it appears as though the man on the motorcycle was speeding through a red-light on Broadway when his bike collided with a truck turning left th

I love that Whitehall, New York is the self-proclaimed "Bigfoot Capital of the Northeast."  I love even more that the small town in Washington County officially adopted the hairy mythological beast as their official animal.  Residents have embraced it and so have out-of-towners who come to the Adirondacks in search of any evidence that may prove that this elusive, social distancing maste

Summer is finally here and families all over the Capital Region have either planned their summer trips or soon will be. If an upcoming trip has you traveling through New York State, you may see road signs or your GPS alerting that you're nearing a place called Donald J...

Ahhh Summertime in the Capital Region.  Can't you just hear your kids already?  "Im bored!"  "What's for lunch?"  "Can I have a snack?"  "How come we never doooo anything?" Now that school is pretty much a wrap for the summer, most kids (that may or may not repeat the above statements several thousand times) will be looking for something to do while parents

For last few months, the Glens Falls rocking chair that simply "appeared" one April day in a local park created an air of of mystery, intrigue, and speculation.  What was  story behind the portrait of the little girl and who is the person holding her hand seen in the silhouette on the back of the chair placed inside City Park in Glens Falls?  Some people ...

Perhaps we oughta call these men the real Duck Dynasty or how about, wait for it..... Duck, Duck Sleuths? A family of ducks trying to cross a portion of I-87 in Albany ended up in a storm drain, stranded without their mom and probably had little chance for survival had it not been for the heroic action of a couple of New York State Troopers on Friday. ...

Some people who have already been to the Great Escape in Lake George this spring have snapped photos of this nostalgic attraction, hoping to preserve a childhood memory.  Right now it just looks as if it's "temporarily closed," but this oldie but goodie is permanently retired.

A family-owned Italian import store that has been a mainstay in Albany for over 75 years just announced a massive expansion deal that sources say will not only triple their size, but will also bring them into Latham and Saratoga Springs.