TORREY — While one group celebrated the state’s denial of an air permit renewal for Greenidge Generation LLC, another group blasted the decision Friday.

TORREY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation made its decision Greenidge Generation’s request for a new Title V permit.

ALBANY — The State Department of Environmental Conservation announced Thursday that it has denied the Title V air permit renewal for the Greenidge Generation facility in Torrey, Yates County.

By the time Friday morning arrived, many Finger Lakes-area residents had all but forgotten about the line of thunderstorms that rolled through the region Thursday afternoon — and a tornado watch alert.

PENN YAN — After some controversy and criticism, the Yates County Legislature has approved new district lines.

BRANCHPORT — Those with a sentimental attachment to the former school in this Yates County hamlet may want to say their goodbyes before too much longer.

PENN YAN — If not for the Civil War, Lemmon v. New York could have gone down as one of the most memorable cases in U.S. Supreme Court history.

ALBANY — While admitting it won’t affect the Greenidge Generation plant in Yates County, environmental groups are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to back a moratorium on permits for some cryptocurrency operations that has been approved by both houses of the state Legislature.

ALBANY — In an eleventh-hour decision, the state Senate has approved a two-year moratorium on new and renewed permits for some cryptocurrency operations, although it won't affect the Greenidge Generation plant on the shores of Seneca Lake.

If you fill up your car at gas stations in Wayne or Yates counties, you might be noticing something unusual: The price has dropped.

PENN YAN — A local man will be spending about six months in jail for sexually abusing two minors.

While there is no information pointing to a specific threat, local police agencies are stepping up their presence at schools in response to the mass shooting in Texas.

KEUKA PARK — Two vivid examples — one on campus, the other halfway around the world — provided words of encouragement and advice to the Keuka College Class of 2022 at the school’s 113th annual Commencement Saturday.

PENN YAN — Yates County has joined the growing list of municipalities helping drivers save money at the pumps in the current era of high gas prices.

PENN YAN — Just two days after a memorable blaze in Geneva, firefighters in this Yates County village battled one of their own.

PENN YAN — Yates County residents will have a chance to weigh in on a redistricting plan.

PENN YAN — Yates County residents who test positive for Covid-19 will no longer get a phone call from the state Department of Health virtual call center or Yates County Public Health.

BENTON — A longtime bus driver in the Penn Yan school district was placed on paid administrative leave after her bus went into a ditch Monday morning with 13 students on board.

PENN YAN — Village police arrested a Yates County man Friday after he allegedly stabbed someone during a fight.

PENN YAN — A recent ceremony at Penn Yan Academy had the look and feel of students signing letters of intent to play college athletics.

CANANDAIGUA — When longtime Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero came out of retirement last November in an interim role, he was faced with two big challenges: improving morale, and filling numerous vacancies when it came to deputies and corrections officers.

PENN YAN — A local man who injured a fellow inmate at the Yates County Jail earlier this year is heading to prison.

PENN YAN — After several meetings and considerable debate, it appears the Yates County Legislature is generally in agreement on how new legislative districts should look.

KEUKA PARK — The 2021 cohort of Keuka’s occupational therapy graduates wasn’t just one of the biggest in the college’s history, it was one of the most successful.

GENEVA — As Toni Reed looks back on her 30-year career at United Parcel Service, she recalls a time when she didn’t think she would last three months.

ALBANY — Opponents of Greenidge Generation’s bitcoin mining operation in Yates County are praising the state Assembly for backing a moratorium on the practice — and they are urging the state Senate to follow suit.

GENEVA — After holding virtual events each of the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a popular relay race around Seneca Lake returns in its normal form this weekend.

Rachel Morgan didn’t smoke pot while growing up in Rochester, but she’s now a firm believer in the medicinal qualities of cannabis.

PENN YAN — The Yates County Legislature will stay a 14-member body.

PENN YAN — Johnson-Costello Post 355 of the American Legion honored several volunteers at the post’s recent birthday dinner.

Fire departments in Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates counties will take part in the upcoming “Recruit NY” weekend, the 13th annual effort to increase membership in volunteer fire departments.

TORREY — A state Supreme Court justice will not be standing in the way of Greenidge Generation’s expansion of its bitcoin mining operation on the shores of Seneca Lake.

TORREY — A state Supreme Court justice will not be standing in the way of Greenidge Generation's expansion of its bitcoin mining operation on the shores of Seneca Lake.