Andrew Cuomo announces details of a deal between New York state and the Saint Regis Mohawk tribe.
Fresh off a deal with the Oneida Nation, today Governor Cuomo announced a deal to resolve gaming issues with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe.
The Mohawks will resume paying the state 25% of the revenues from its Akwesasne Mohawk casino near Massena. The tribe will also pay back 30 million dollars it has withheld over the last three years. St. Lawrence and Franklin counties will once again see their shares of that revenue, including immediate payments of 3.75 million dollars each.
The devastating disease, fire blight, targets the most popular apple varieties. Researchers are trying to work on expanding the range of defenses available to combat the bacteria in upstate.
New York is the second biggest apple producing state in the country. But, last year production dropped dramatically due to a warmer winter, early blooms, and harsh spring frosts. The total production from the state plummeted from 1.2 million pounds in 2011, to just 710,000 pounds in 2012.
But, weather isn’t the only challenge growers are contending with.
An energy company is looking into building a natural gas pipeline from near Binghamton to the Syracuse area.
Millennium Pipeline Company is currently soliciting feedback from natural gas suppliers about their proposal to connect three supply lines running east-west across upstate New York, with a north-south line.
The Upstate Pipeline would connect the company's Millennium Pipeline - which runs from Corning to Rockland County, near New York City - with the Tennessee Pipeline in the Town on Onondaga, crossing the Dominion Pipeline in between.
A group of western New York high school students toured the Gates Vascular Institute in Buffalo to learn about medical science.
“They’re putting a tube up the vein to get rid of leakage in the brain. It looks cool,” said Nicholas Altemoos, a 9th grader at Bennett High School.
Twenty freshman and sophomore students watched a recorded medical procedure on the human eye during their tour of Gates Vascular Institute, University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Research Center and the Jacob’s Institute.
New York's beef farmers think laterally to gain a foothold in the 'local' food market.
The steaks stacked in the coolers of butcher shops in New York may be marketed as local, but just what that label means varies widely.
The state actually has no definition for classifying whether beef sold under that label is locally produced; the duty of deciding what's local falls to the store selling the meat.
Cattle raising in New York state is pretty modest by Texan standards (which had more than 4 million at the start of the year). There are about 6,000 New York farmers raising 90,000 cattle, according to the Department of Agriculture census. That averages out to about two dozen cattle per farmer.
