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Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 3:34 PM EDT
|By Scott Atkinson and Ron Robertson
A scathing audit says the state Department of Health under-reported COVID deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50 percent.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2021 at 5:54 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
The so-called Hunger Games heat up as the state doubles down on its efforts to fix up downtowns
Updated: Jul. 13, 2021 at 11:25 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
The Stefanik fundraising machine keeps churning away.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2021 at 5:45 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson and Lexi Bruening
Peyton Morse was remembered as someone dedicated to the service of others and someone who always wanted to be a firefighter.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 10:03 AM EST
|By Scott Atkinson and Ron Robertson
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik says she will join dozens of other Republican members of Congress who plan to contest presidential electors on Wednesday.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 5:30 PM EST
|By Scott Atkinson and Ron Robertson
North country congresswoman Elise Stefanik is one of more than a hundred Republican members of congress who have signed on in support of a lawsuit that could overturn the results of November’s presidential election.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Les Shockley, Ron Robertson and Scott Atkinson
Tina Marie Stevens was conscious and talking to first responders at the accident scene, but died later.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2020 at 9:02 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Police were finishing up the search of an apartment in the Woolworth Building in downtown Watertown Wednesday evening when they spotted a man who was wanted on drug charges.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 7:14 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A Franklin County man is accused of stealing two vehicles in the town of Lyme within a few minutes of each other.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 8:51 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A massive drug sweep in May apparently wasn’t the end of what law enforcement officials called “Operation Drop.”
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 12:19 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
“All school districts can open in the state,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 11:08 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson and The Associated Press
“This decision will slow the rate of our economic recovery from COVID-19, particularly for the manufacturers along the Northern Border in the North Country,” Stefanik said in a statement Friday.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:37 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Both events are scheduled for Saturday, August 15.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 11:42 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Ron Robertson
The National Governors Association is meeting virtually Wednesday and the current chair, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, is expected to hand the reins to Cuomo, who has been serving as vice chair.
Updated: Apr. 17, 2020 at 12:48 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Some north country lawmakers are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to consider relaxing restrictions sooner in parts of the state that have had relatively few COVID-19 cases.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2020 at 10:35 PM EDT
|By Keir Chapman and Ron Robertson
Eight people in Jefferson County have been tested for COVID-19 and so far, no one has tested positive.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 11:55 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Relatives of the sole survivor of a fire that killed five members of her family have agreed to turn over more than $71,000 they raised on her behalf.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2019 at 3:45 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Watertown mayoral candidates had the chance to trade a few barbs in a 7 News debate Tuesday between candidates for Watertown mayor.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2019 at 12:21 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Elise Stefanik and other members of Congress are calling the Trump Administration's decision to not oppose a Turkish incursion into Syria "a misguided and catastrophic blow to our national security interests."
Updated: Sep. 23, 2019 at 11:10 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A plan that could save Massena Memorial Hospital $1 million a year has been approved by the state health department.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2019 at 5:38 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson, Diane Rutherford and Katie Benoit
A western New York Boy Scout leader is accused of sexually abusing several youths at a St. Lawrence County Boy Scout camp three summers in a row.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2019 at 11:02 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Three years ago, Valerie Juby was watching hurricane coverage on television.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2019 at 3:54 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
You might think getting stuck at a popular vacation destination would be a dream come true.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2019 at 10:44 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Officials with the union that represents workers at Alcoa say they have a tentative contract deal with the aluminum company.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2019 at 10:40 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
The city of Watertown's revenue from sales tax was down last month, but it's still healthy for the year so far.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2019 at 11:18 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
ave The River is asking for St. Lawrence Seaway shipping to be closed for several days at a time so more water can be released from the Moses-Saunders Power Dam in Massena.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2019 at 7:51 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A Norwood man allegedly caused a vehicle to crash into a home when he was fleeing deputies on foot after spraying graffiti on two Norwood buildings.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2019 at 10:44 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Tibbetts Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent is one of nine lighthouses within a proposed marine sanctuary that would also encompass 21 known shipwrecks and one downed military aircraft.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2019 at 6:11 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A Clayton man is accused of forcing a woman into a car Sunday evening and driving recklessly with both her and a baby inside.
Updated: May. 31, 2019 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
It turns out the the International Joint Commission was right when it predicted earlier this week that water levels on Lake Ontario would likely meet or exceed 2017 levels.
Updated: May. 31, 2019 at 12:17 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Ogdensburg police say they found two active one-pot meth labs when they raided a New York Avenue apartment Thursday afternoon.
Updated: May. 30, 2019 at 8:00 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
The Great New York State Food and Wine Festival is coming up in Clayton next week.
Updated: May. 29, 2019 at 6:31 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
It's Memorial Day weekend and, for many, that means cookouts.
Updated: May. 29, 2019 at 1:09 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
The last Akwesasne Mohawk World War II code talker has died.
Updated: May. 29, 2019 at 10:27 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A Boonville man is accused of strangling a woman and hitting her with a cell phone.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 1:49 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
The Watertown Salvation Army's 13th annual carnival is coming up next week.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 1:28 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Canadian border officials confiscated more than four tons of cheese someone tried to smuggle into that country and the man responsible was ordered to pay a sizable fine.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 10:33 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
There's a cruise-in coming up to benefit a scholarship fund for students with learning disabilities.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 10:22 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Beauty is about 3 years old and could be a pointer-pit bull mix.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 10:17 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
There's a BSA troop for girls in Canton.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 9:58 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A Canton man is accused of endangering two children who were in a car he was closely tailgating in the town of Hermon on Sunday.
Updated: May. 24, 2019 at 1:24 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
7 News chief weathercaster John Kubis served in the Air Force right after high school.
Updated: May. 24, 2019 at 1:12 PM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
Oneida County's sheriff confirms that a person of interest in a bank robbery earlier this month was picked up in the north country Friday morning.
Updated: May. 24, 2019 at 10:27 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania man was charged in a federal court in Syracuse with transporting two people who were in the United States illegally.
Updated: May. 24, 2019 at 10:18 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
There's a golf tournament coming up that raises money for a Watertown City School District program that helps provide food to some families.
Updated: May. 24, 2019 at 9:32 AM EDT
|By Ron Robertson
A former Oswego city official has admitted he allowed raw sewage to be dumped into Lake Ontario.
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