Finger Lakes

A bitcoin operation in central New York has taken over a power plant to find cheap energy for currency mining in a move that has alarmed environmentalists

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin use massive amounts of power to keep systems running. Plus, there are massive “farms” full of computers mining for the coins. But some crypto companies are signing the Crypto Climate Accord, pledging to reduce their consumption and carbon emissions to a more sustainable level.

The Wadsworth family has owned the home at 107 Main Street in Farmington for generations.

A 5-year-old child and an 81-year-old friend have been found dead after apparently falling into the water during a fishing trip in the Finger Lakes region, authorities say.

A 12-year-old girl has been charged with spray-painting swastikas on the sides of a church and other buildings in New York’s Finger Lakes region

Gambling regulators in New York are close to giving their final OK to sports betting at four upstate casinos.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the number of visitors to New York state parks, historic sites and campgrounds topped 74 million in 2018.

The mayor of Rochester says her city wants to “make a second pitch” to Amazon now that the company has dropped plans for a New York City headquarters.

Dozens of cows roamed an Upstate highway early Friday morning after escaping a tractor-trailer truck that got into a multi-vehicle pileup, video shows.