Ulster County News

State Sen. John Bonacic introduced a bill on Thursday that calls for five upstate casinos, including three in the Catskills, over the next three to five years.

A 13-year-old boy was charged with making a bomb threat Wednesday at the Wallkill School District's John G. Borden Middle School.

The successful TMI Project held a workshop for clients at the Mental Health Association of Ulster County, and now those folks are taking to the stage with their finished products.

A Mobile Life Support Services paramedic is in critical condition and an emergency medical technician was injured after their ambulance collided head-on with a pickup truck on Route 32 on Saturday morning, the Ulster County sheriff's office said.

Students from Borden Middle School were evacuated Wednesday morning after a threat was made against the school, the Ulster County Sheriff's Department reported.

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for northwestern Ulster County until 2:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.

A Chichester man on parole for leaving the scene of a crash that killed a bicyclist in 2006 was arrested Monday night and charged with driving while intoxicated, a felony, Kingston police said.

A school bus driver, a bus aide and an 8-year-old student were injured Tuesday morning when the driver veered off Sportsman Road, Ulster County sheriff's deputies reported.

The Ulster County Family & Child Advocacy Center said Christopher Saitch, 39, of Kingston was left alone with the children in a house when the incident happened.

Featured in todays Record Newswatch - voters head to the polls to decide the fate of area school budgets and school board positions; an Ulster county man on parole for a fatal hit-and-run incident has been arrested for felony DWI and NASCAR racing legend Tony Stewart makes an appearance at Orange County Fair Speedway.

An Ellenville woman was ticketed for unsafe speed after she hit a tree on Weiner Road Monday morning, according to Ulster County sheriff's deputies.

High-performing math and science teachers in four regions - the Mid-Hudson, the North County, western and central New York - will be chosen this fall for a $60,000 merit incentive over four years.

Ten years ago this month, then-Gov. George Pataki signed an agreement with the St.

A Wawarsing man was arrested Wednesday and accused of calling a victim soon after an order of protection was issued on her behalf.

A Mobile Life Support Services paramedic is in critical condition and an emergency medical technician was injured after their ambulance collided head-on with a pickup truck on Route 32 on Saturday morning, the Ulster County sheriff's office said.

Mismanagement of day care assistance money could have cost Ulster County taxpayers $136,000 each year, according to a county probe.

City and Ulster County officials gathered on one of the city's most troubled corners Thursday morning, itching to clean up the neighborhood.

She'll be among a legion of mid-Hudsonites marching down the aisle this weekend to fetch college diplomas they hope will do more than decorate a wall.

A Wawarsing man was arrested Wednesday and accused of calling a victim soon after an order of protection was issued on her behalf.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein, in conjunction with the Dutchess County Arts Council, announced Thursday the winners of his first Ulster County Executive's Arts Awards.