Skaneateles Lake

New York is home to more than 7,600 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. One of those lakes has the distinction of being not only the cleanest in the state but the second cleanest in the country.

Did you know that one of the cleanest lakes in the entire United States is located right in the Finger Lakes Region?

State police say the body of an 82-year-old ice fisherman has been recovered from the southern end of Skaneateles Lake, about 23 miles southwest of Syracuse.

The number of pollution-fed toxic algae blooms is climbing in New York.

SKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — A Cortland County woman has pleaded guilty and paid $400 in fines for a boating accident in the Finger Lakes that maimed her 8-year-old stepdaughter.

SPAFFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a Syracuse man who didn't surface while scuba diving in one of New York's Finger Lakes.

SKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a field sobriety test performed at the scene and another blood test later showed the operator of a boat that hit her husband and critically injured his 8-year-old daughter on Skaneateles Lake was not intoxicated under state law.

SKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York City man has drowned over the weekend after his kayak overturned on a central New York lake.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have identified the operator of a boat that hit a man and his 8-year-old daughter on Skaneateles Lake earlier this month, causing the girl to lose an arm and a leg.