Butte County is expecting to welcome Monica Soderstrom as its new permanent Public Health Director once a contract is approved during the Feb. 11 Board of Supervisors meeting. Soderstrom will be ...

New York on alert as H5N1 avian flu cases confirmed in NYC and the Hudson Valley. DEC taking swift action to contain the outbreak.

Health officials in Ontario and Yates counties say there is no cause for immediate alarm; infections in the Finger Lakes bird population is not new.