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LDC formed to handle sale of Otsego Manor

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (WKTV) - Officials have voted to create a Local Development Corporation to handle the sale of the financially plagued Otsego Manor. Read more »

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Post office retreats on eliminating Saturday mail

WASHINGTON (AP) - The beleaguered U.S. Postal Service backed down from its cost-saving plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. Read More »

Options for Otsego Manor to be explored this week

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (WKTV) - The committee looking into selling Otsego Manor is scheduled to meet this week and vote on which plan, of three, will move forward. Read More »

FAA to delay 149 airport tower closures until June

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is delaying the closing of 149 airport control towers until mid-June in order to deal with legal challenges. Read More »

200 NY Thruway Authority workers face layoffs, 4 local

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - About 200 employees of the New York state Thruway Authority are expected to lose their jobs as part of layoffs announced by the Cuomo administration earlier this year. Read More »

Picente: exploring options to keep Griffiss Tower open

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente says that he is actively pursuing options for the Griffiss International Airport Tower to remain open for business. Read More »

Local agencies for the disabled brace for state funding cuts

Agencies that serve the most vulnerable members of the community are bracing for a cut in state funding that may force them to cut services to their disabled clients. Read More »

Arc Oneida-Lewis voices State Budget concerns to legislators

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Some local state lawmakers gathered Friday morning at the ARC Oneida-Lewis County in Utica for breakfast. Read More »

Picente makes case to FAA to keep Air Control Tower at Griffiss

ROME, N.Y. (WKTV) - On Tuesday, Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente delivered an official letter of appeal to the FAA, laying out the reasons he feels the Air Control Tower at Griffiss International Airport should remain open. Read More »

Retired military members getting the boot from Rome gym

ROME, N.Y. (WKTV) - Retired U.S. Air Force Sgt. Melvin Derr of Rome says he was in shock when he received a letter in the mail recently. Read More »

Air Traffic Control tower at Griffiss on government's closure list

ROME, N.Y. (WKTV) - The federal government plans to close 173 towers at small and mid-sized airports on April 7 due to sequestration cuts. Read More »

Picente delivers 2013 State of the County address

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. delivered his annual State of the County address Tuesday morning. Read More »

Utica's bond rating downgraded

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Moody's Investors have downgraded the City of Utica's bond rating. Read More »

Hess getting out of gas station business

NEW YORK (AP) - Hess is getting out of the gas station business and ridding itself of its energy trading and marketing businesses. Read More »

Local hospitals brace for impact of sequestration

It appears nothing will stop sequestration, a self-imposed series government funding cuts as a result of government's failure to rein in spending, from kicking in on Friday. Local hospitals are bracing for impact. Read More »

Equipment from Daimler Buses in Oriskany going to auction

ORISKANY, N.Y. (WKTV) - More than four thousand lots of bus manufacturing and assembly equipment is set to be auctioned off from Daimler Buses in Oriskany due to the plant's closing. Read More »

White House estimates impact of budget cuts on NYS

NEW YORK (AP) - Department of Defense workers in New York could be the state's biggest losers in automatic cuts to the federal budget set to take hold this week. Read More »

Utica Schools anticipate additional cuts if sequester goes into effect

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - If Congress and the President do not act and automatic spending cuts go into effect March 1st cuts that will effect local school districts' funding. The Utica School District estimates they would lose between $600,000 to $800,000 if the sequester goes into effect, money they didn't plan on losing on top of next year's already tough budget. Read More »

Gillibrand: Sequestration would be devastating to NYS

Sequestration is the result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, because there was not a plan, at the time, to reduce the national deficit. So now, in the remaining seven months of this fiscal year, the government must come up with $85 billion in cuts. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was in town on Friday, weighing-in on the issue. Read More »

City of Utica and Police Union at odds over 'show up pay'

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - The city of Utica and its police union are at odds over $620,000 that's not in the city budget. Utica's PBA President Dominick Nitti says it's simple; his officers simply want to be paid for all of the time they're at work. Read More »

Proposed Utica budget calls for 3.75 percent tax hike, 10 vacant positions to be eliminated

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Utica City Mayor Robert Palmieri unveiled his 2013-2014 budget to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on Tuesday. It passed and is now in the hands of the Utica Common Council, calling for a 3.75 percent property tax hike. Read More »

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