Alexandria Bay, NY

TOWN OF ORLEANS, New York (WWNY) - The trailer part of a tractor-trailer caught fire Friday morning while headed north on Route 81 near Alexandria Bay. The fire spread quickly - by the time it was out, not much was left. The driver of the truck told 7 News he...

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - Watertown’s mayor is adamantly denying an assertation made by a city council candidate on a talk radio show Friday. Robert Schorr called into Hotline with Jeff Graham on WATN and said he believes Mayor Jeff Smith plans to push for the closure of the north side fire station on Mill Street and layoff 15 firefighters.

CAPE VINCENT, New York (WWNY) - In Cape Vincent, a list of waterfront projects is starting to come to fruition. One unveiled today is a new pavilion. Other projects will soon break ground. The pavilion in East End Park was 10 years in the making. It’s complete with bathrooms, showers...

GOUVERNEUR — Richard L. Matott, 64, was charged by Gouverneur police this week with two counts each of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both felonies. The charges stem from an investigation into “the sale of heroin/fentanyl” at 15 Waid St.,...

A police officer in Philadelphia is under investigation after he allegedly deleted footage of an arrest he made in March. According to ABC News, Officer Tyree Burnett’s body camera footage allegedly showed him deleting the cell phone footage of the interaction, which had been filmed by Jacob Giddings, the person he arrested.

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - Watertown police issued an appeal for the public’s help Thursday afternoon. They released photos of a man inside the Ace Hardware store on State Street. Police want help in identifying the man, and say they believe “he may have knowledge of a larceny that occurred” on May 17 at the store.

WATERTOWN — A man and a woman from Rome who appear to know each other were involved in separate misadventures in Watertown that allegedly involved a stolen horse, a stolen Frito-Lay truck and stolen Little Debbie brownies. The woman allegedly stole a horse this week and then was ejected from...

CLAYTON, New York (WWNY) - A South Carolina man is behind bars, accused of having ‘sexual contact’with a girl under the age of 15. Daniel Hitchcock, 51, from Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, was charged Wednesday by state police. Police charged Hitchcock with one count of Criminal Sex Act 3rd degree...

Photographer Dean Shelato recently visited the Red Barn Preserve, 518 River Road East in Morristown, this past weekend and spotted some blue heron babies. Blue herons occupy a rookery at the preserve and tend to their nests from late March to mid July. “There are blue heron babies in most of the 40 nests on the property,” Shelato said. “If you plan to visit the Red Barn Preserve- bring binoculars. The best viewing is from the observation deck on the yellow trail.”

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - The federal government’s new Emergency Rental Assistance program provides a way to catch up on rent you owe, and can help pay the rent going forward. But you have to apply for the money. Where to start?. In Watertown, the newly-opened CARE Center at the...

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - We’re not tired of this news yet, and hope you aren’t either. There are very few new COVID cases to report in northern New York - just seven today. Yes, that’s getting to be the norm. But after months of big increases every day - and with it, many deaths - we’re not ready to let go of good news.

Watertown, NY — A family-owned Italian restaurant is taking on Grubhub in Upstate’s federal court over the food-delivery giant’s practice of adding restaurants to its online platform without their knowledge or consent. It’s part of Grubhub’s business strategy: if a restaurant declines an official business partnership, then Grubhub adds the...

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - If you plan to vote in the upcoming primary, you can do it early, starting Saturday. Primary day is June 22, but Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties all allow early voting from June 12 to June 20. In Jefferson County, voting is at the...

To an untrained ear, the communication used to fire live artillery rounds can sound like total chaos. However, for the soldiers of Fort Drum, it’s perfect English. Fort Drum recently hosted one of its largest and loudest live training events — an artillery live fire. It’s the communication that helps map out exactly where large rounds will land, from as far as seven miles away.

CARTHAGE, New York (WWNY) - After fire struck a home on South Mechanic Street Tuesday, and again Wednesday, a lot of people were left wondering how it could happen. That’s especially since the power to 319 South Mechanic Street was cut after the first fire, and fire officials quickly said the fires weren’t suspicious - no one was setting them on purpose.

FORT DRUM — There’s one word the garrison commander at Fort Drum uses to describe the way the local governments and the military post responded to the coronavirus pandemic — community. Col. Jeffery P. Lucas, the commander in charge of managing the day-to-day operations of Fort Drum, said when the...