Tompkins County News

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday that it will restore the funding needed to support continued operation of the Ithaca air traffic control tower, as well as 148 other airport contract towers across the country, through the end of the federal fiscal year September 30.

The Lansing PTSO sponsored 'Meet the Candidates' night monday. The event was moderated by the League of Women Voters of Tompkins County's Lucia Sciore.

INLAND TROUT STREAMS: Many sections of area streams and lakes have been stocked as of May 10.

A 16-year-old girl was taken to a hospital after being struck by a car in Tompkins County on Tuesday morning.

New York's five-year moratorium on shale gas development promised to be a blessing for many landowners eager to end leases they signed before anyone outside of the oil and gas industry had heard of fracking.

It's more important than ever to check for ticks this season. Lyme disease cases are on the rise in Central New York.

Tompkins County farmers have been hit with higher assessments this year, some of them significant.

Sedgwick's Hydraulic Fracturing Task Force has been watching the ongoing litigation involving hydraulic fracturing bans in the towns of Dryden and Middlefield, N.Y. In February 2012 , we reported on the Supreme Court of the State of New York decisions upholding both the Town of Dryden's ban on fracking in Tompkins County and the Town of ... (more)

Police say the Newfield man wanted in connection to the shooting, Donnell Harrison, 35, is now in New York City.

A Newfield man must serve a five-year probation sentence and pay an $1,800 fine for growing marijuana on his Elmira Road property.

The Tompkins County Sheriff's Department is circulating a photo of Donnell Harrison, a man they believe was involved in a shooting incident in Newfield last weekend.

Ludlowville is a bowl in the topography of Lansing that catches water and floods homes and properties.

A Spencer man may be heading back to prison in connection with a fraudulent check scheme.

Attorneys for a natrual-gas company and an Otsego County farmer say they will ask the Court of Appeals to take up the issue of home rule for hydraulic fracturing.

A mid-level appeals court says New York municipalities can use local zoning laws to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.

Central New York residents line up outside the main entrance to the New York State Fair last summer to protest hydrofracking.

Tonight's neighborhood meeting takes place at Somerville Community Baptist Church at 6:30 p.m. 3) EMPOWERED: Power From the People Somerville Climate Action presents a film about Tompkins County, New York, where people are using a variety of alternative energy methods.

In November 2012, as part of a nationwide investigation of "no-kill" shelters, a PETA investigator visited the SPCA of Tompkins County -- which has long boasted that it is a "no-kill" facility as well as an open-admission shelter.

The search continues in Tompkins County for the suspect in a double shooting in Newfield Tuesday afternoon.

The fourth annual Spring Writes Finger Lakes Literary Festival will be bigger than ever this year, with more than 30 events taking place at various locations around Ithaca tonight through Sunday.