Wells News

Investigators are seen at Riverview IRA, a group home for disabled persons in Wells, N.Y., after the fire in March.

CHEERS to people who have come to make a habit of giving a tip to some of those who spend a year serving them in one way or another.

Fulton County government next year may end up paying more than $900,000 in back taxes that the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District owes area school districts around the Great Sacandaga Lake.

Chloe VanAlstine didn't participate in the eighth annual Adirondack Spinatcular Saturday afternoon, but she did show up at the Mayfield Fairgrounds at about noon in time to wait nearly an hour for the awards ceremony.

The 59th annual Olde Home Days got off to a slow start, but people starting filing in slowly as the evening went on.

The 59th annual Olde Home Days got off to a slow start, but people starting filing in slowly as the evening went on.

Two workers suspended after study of deadly Wells group home blaze RICK KARLIN CAPITOL BUREAU Section: Main, Page: A1 Date: Friday, June 12, 2009 ALBANY -- Workers at the state-run group home where four disabled people perished in a March 21 fire may have falsified fire drill records, according to an internal report that has led to the suspension ...

Chloe Van Alstine's frigid water rescue in November has earned her more than the admiration of the community.

An upstate New York teenager is among the nearly two dozen people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism.

Authorities say workers may have falsified fire drill records at the state-run group home in the Adirondacks where a blaze killed four people in March.

ALBANY The Department of State Wednesday transmitted to the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities the report of the Fire, Building and Life Safety Code Applicability at the Riverview Individual Residential Alternative .

The fatal fire scene Saturday, March 21, 2009, at the Riverview IRA group home in Wells, Hamilton County.