Newburgh

A Newburgh Police Department report obtained by WAMC says hundreds of thousands of searches by law enforcement agencies around the country included the City of Newburgh Police Department’s Flock License Plate Reader Network.

Recent news that cleanup of a superfund site at a Hudson Valley air national guard base will be delayed for 20 years comes as local activists with Newburgh Clean Water Project prepare to celebrate the importance of clean water.

Lawmakers voted unanimously to call on the DHS and ICE not to build in Newburgh, but the move is mostly symbolic.

Folks were ecstatic about the settlement between New York Attorney General Letitia James and their apartment complex's owner and managers. They will collectively receive more than $400,000 in rent refunds for the payments made while living in what the state's lawsuit described as inhospitable conditions.

Newburgh is celebrating Pride month this weekend. Jonathan Hamilt said despite increasing visibility of homophobia and transphobia in the media, it’s nothing new.

Marcus Burks' death was ruled a homicide according to the Medical Examiner's report. Burks' family is calling for all bodycam footage and the Newburgh Police's report to be released.

New York State Police say a Monday night plane crash on the Hudson River south of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge was an accident.

This weekend’s Newburgh Literary Festival, conceived by Safe Harbors, is curated by authors Ruth Danon and Belinda McKeon. The event will feature the work and words of eight acclaimed writers and will be enlivened by readings, conversations, interviews, interactive workshops, a Local Writers' Fair and a cocktail mixerThis year the Festival committee is thrilled to present poets Erica Hunt, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado and Evie Shockley, as well as fiction writers Julie Chibbaro, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh and Laura Sims, essayist Jordan Kisner and memoirist Julie Metz. These visiting writers will be introduced by the festival curators, poet Ruth Danon and novelist Belinda McKeon, both of whom live locally.Danon and McKeon will also moderate a special keynote event Saturday afternoon, a conversation with me about books and the Book Show. We welcome Ruth Danon and Belinda McKeon.

A movie starring Brendan Fraser is filming in Newburgh.Darren Aronofsky’s film “The Whale” is filming on location at Umbra Sound Stages in Newburgh.…

A brick and mortar bank will open in Newburgh. The city hasn’t had a full-operation bank in a few years, a hole that Rhinebeck Bank will soon fill. Local…