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ALBANY, N.Y. (WENY) -- Over $3 million in New York State money is coming to 16 local departments for agencies to buy new technology and equipment. According to Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, the state is giving out $127 million to 378 law enforcement agencies. The biggest grant recipients in...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – The roadwork on College Avenue and Davis Street is dampening the spirits of staff and customers at Haskins Gardens during its busiest season. “We certainly understand the work has to happen. It just couldn’t be worse timing,” said Owner of Haskins Gardens Kim Haskins. Extensive road work is ongoing in the […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Concept plans filed with the City of Ithaca last week reveal a new effort to develop a Southside property where previous plans failed to materialize. The proposal for 404 Wood Street, also known as 224 Fair Street, is still in the initial planning stages, and as such, renderings are limited. Previously, the site was to feature a sustainable architectural showcase named Perdita Flats, proposed by local couple Umit Sirt and Courtney Royal, who had purchased the lot for $70,000 in 2018.

Elmira, N.Y. (WETM)- We are tracking a slow-moving cold front that will keep rain chances in the forecast for the next couple of days. Is there sunshine anywhere in the forecast? Details below:. TODAY:. We are starting the day mostly sunny, but clouds will gradually build in front of a...

HORSEHEADS, N.Y. (WETM) — Chemung County residents who have old car tires will have the chance to get rid of them soon. The Chemung County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Chemung County Highway Association are holding a tire collection day at 851 Chemung St. in Horseheads on Saturday, June 1. This event is […]

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – The Quarry Farm Foundation has announced its receipt of a $50,000 grant to help with the restoration of old systems at Quarry Farm. The grant comes from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes and will be used to fund the installation of a new fire suppression system. According […]

It's been fairly wet the last few days and much of our region received 1-3'' of rain. The pattern remains active this week with more rain chances. A warm front will push through on Monday with sct'd showers and thunderstorms. Additionally, a slow-moving frontal system will spread more rain showers on Tuesday and Wednesday. Another system is likely to sweep through late Friday into Saturday with more rain.

Residents in area school districts will have an opportunity to vote on proposed 2024-25 school budgets May 21. The issues are pretty straightforward in the Elmira City School District, where school officials are once again presenting a budget with zero property tax increase and no major changes in staffing or programs, and in Elmira Heights, where only a slight tax increase is projected.

Patchy fog will give way to fair skies into Monday afternoon. A warm front will be lifting through the region today with the chance for scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Temperatures will be in the mid-70s. Overnight, there will be a chance for a few showers and thunderstorms in the evening followed by partly cloudy skies overnight. Lows will be in the mid-50s. Tuesday will feature partly sunny skies during most of the day with clouds beginning to increase by the evening. Showers will begin to develop around this time as a cold front approaches from the west. This will bring more showers into Wednesday. Highs will be in the mid-70s Tuesday followed by 70 on Wednesday. A lingering shower cannot be ruled out on Thursday with fair skies expected and temperatures in the mid-70s. Our next system will move in later in the day Friday as a warm front lifts through the region. Highs will be in the mid-70s on Friday and cool down to the lower-70s on Saturday as low pressure sweeps through the Twin Tiers with showers. Drier conditions look to return for Sunday with temperatures in the upper-70s.

ITHACA, N.Y. — The rain gardens are loving it, the rest of us, not so much. Multiple storm systems are likely to impact Tompkins County this week, with rarely a dry day to be had as we head into the middle of the month. For what it’s worth, temps will warm up somewhat and be fairly comfortable, so at least you won’t be shivering or sweating as you dodge the rain drops this week. No major weather disruptions are anticipated in the next seven days.

This article will be updated. The Arts Quad is no longer dotted with colorful tents. The Coalition for Mutual Liberation voluntarily took down its pro-Palestine encampment on Monday, two and a half weeks after it was initially erected on April 25. Approximately 250 supporters circled the original “Liberated Zone” space...

(WETM) — This week “Talk of the Tiers” goes in a different direction than previous programs. We take on a single topic, scams affecting the elderly. Beth Stranges, the director of the Department of Aging and Long Term Care at Chemung County and Chemung County Sheriff Bill Schrom, have tons of good information about what you should and should not to avoid scams and scammers.

After Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee and Margaret Pearce published their research on Land-Grab Universities in their exposé for High Country News in 2020, Cornell University could no longer hide. It damningly holds the title of being the number one beneficiary of the 1862 Morrill Act, a dubious accolade earned on the fact that Cornell singlehandedly seized 1/10 of all the Indigenous lands granted and gained 1/3 of all the revenues generated by the Act. On its own website, Cornell University observes — as passively and innocently as possible — that “we recognize that lands distributed to states to support the founding of universities were previously taken by the federal government.” The phrasing suggests as if, somehow, the grabbing of Indigenous lands was something someone else did, and it is only by chance that Cornell University, by the nature of it being in the populously settled New York state, benefited the most from Indigenous dispossession. But, as research by Professor Jon Parmenter demonstrates, Ezra Cornell personally speculated in the scrips from New York, Wisconsin, Kansas and Minnesota that would provide him with the landed wealth to establish his “any person, any study” vision for the academic institution that he founded. Cornell would not exist without the almost one million acres its founder personally helped steal from over 251 Indigenous nations and communities throughout North America. When Indigenous students and scholars refer to Cornell’s founding as genocidal, they mean that literally. The stripping of land, the reduction of Indigenous peoples to the smallest parcels of holdings on their traditional and customary territories, the forced assimilation and the loss of language was, in each instance, a violent, deadly endeavor toward the pursuit of — through any means necessary — the elimination of Indigenous peoples.

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WENY) -- Pedro is an animal ambassador at the Tanglewood Nature Center and is native to Australia. Ryan Donnelly from the center says an area underneath their necks gives them their names that appear to look like a beard. “He has this nice little area right underneath his...