coronavirus (COVD19)

This holiday season, many children are nervous that Santa may get COVID-19. Is Santa immune to the coronavirus?

Walmart locations in Rome, Utica, Herkimer, New Hartford, and the Syracuse area will begin counting customers in store locations due to the Coronavirus.

Oneida County is getting very close to a 7-day average of 3-percent of positive COVID-19 tests, which would push it into the Governor's Yellow Zone restrictions. As of yesterday, the county was at a 2.9-percent rolling 7-day average with 57 new positive cases to report as of 12 noon on Sunday. That brings the total number of active COVID cases to 745, and 3,572 since the outbreak began.

New York State is extending the window for people to purchase alcohol-to-go. That will be available for restaurants and bars in the Utica and Rome areas.

Saturday was another day of high positive testing in Oneida County in the battle against coronavirus COVID19. There were 51 new positive cases in the county, bringing the total number of active positive cases in the county to 390. Active cases were in single digits one month ago. This rate of active cases is the highest since April 6th, when there were 401 active cases.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an Executive Order which extends the period that expired driver’s licenses are still valid.

This Christmas season, you can now book Santa for a Zoom call with your kids for a virtual Santa call.

Students in the Vernon-Verona-Sherill Central School District wanted to thank the teachers and staff for all of their hard work during this school year.

Stockbridge Valley school district in Madison County closed and went to remote learning due to the weather.

At least 50 high school students from multiple districts across the Utica-Rome area were exposed to coronavirus at a house party in Marcy.

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is reminding residents here in the Utica-Rome area to renew expired registrations by the upcoming deadline.

As part of Target’s new safety measures, here in New Hartford and Syracuse, the company announced it will be offering shopping reservations for the holidays.