Catskill News

 

New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that her office has reached agreements with Orange County and the Town of Chester to end...

The Sullivan County Public Health Department is notifying the public of possible exposures to individuals who recently tested positive for measles. Sullivan County now...

This incident happened in Kiryas Joel on Monday afternoon. (YWN World Headquarters - NYC)

The geographic areas where Lyme disease is a bigger danger have grown dramatically, according to a new government study published Wednesday U.S. cases remain concentrated...

  Click HERE for photos of the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, on a recent visit to Satmar Camp Rav Tov. (YWN Catskills Newsroom)

2:40PM EST: Catskills Hatzolah are on the scene of a serious MVA involving an overturned vehicle on Route 17 (westbound) near Exit 116. A medevac...

A 15-passenger van overturned on Church Road in Mountaindale on Thursday night. Sources tell YWN that there were 13 passengers in the vehicle at the...

Residents living next to Kiryas Joel in the Hudson Valley have voted to allow its expansion. Monday night’s vote in the Town of Monroe involved...

(by C.B. Lieber - Originally published in Mispacha Magazine) Have you ever heard of the Camp Munk Circus? An annual tradition for over 60 years,...

Catskills Hatzolah was on the scene of a two car crash in Monticello, Sunday afternoon. It happened at the intersection of Fraser Road and Anawana...

The State Police in Ellenville are investigating a crash involving two Ulster County Sherrif's vehicles. The collision occurred on June 11, 2019 at approximately...

For decades Orthodox Jewish parents who paid thousands of dollars every year for each of their children’s tuition, were told by their elected officials...

The Spinka Bais Medrash in Kiryas Joel was destroyed by a fire on Thursday. The Kiryas Joel Fire Department was on the scene of the...

The following is via News12: A public forum was held Tuesday evening at Bais Rachel Paradise Hall about the controversial plan to annex 500 acres...

Mayors of some of upstate New York’s largest cities have joined together to support Uber’s proposal to expand throughout the state. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren,...

7:15PM (Sunday): Emergency personnel are on the scene of a MVA on Route 17 Eastbound near Exit 113. Unknown if there are injuries. Expect...

Drivers in New York now have to slow down and move over for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers as well as police and maintenance...

The statement below is made by Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff in regards to the Facebook Posting made by Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van...

With summer here, tens of thousands of folks are commuting to and from the Catskills each week – and the travel expenses can slap...

Tragedy struck the Satmar community on Tuesday evening, as word spread of a tragic accident which resulted in the Petira of a Yeshiva Bochur. It...

After a year of legal wrangling, a group of Chasidic Jewish residents of Bloomingburg, NY settled their case for their legal right to vote....

A vote by property owners in the 164-acre section of the Town of Monroe to annex their land into the Village of Kiryas Joel...

5:00PM (Friday): There is a serious car accident on Anawana Lake Road in Monticello. The crash is near the Satmar Camp (Kutshers), between Kutshers...

State and local authorities are trying to determine what triggered explosions and a fire at a cosmetics factory in New York's Hudson Valley that...

9:45AM (Thursday): Following the attempted armed robbery on Anawana Lake Road on Wednesday night, the Sheriff Department worked tirelessly through the night to apprehend...