Syracuse NY

Dollar Tree's price hikes have many scratching their heads, especially when a simple hanger now costs more than a dollar. What’s happening here?

A late-night home invasion at an Auburn apartment complex ended with three men in custody, including one suspect who fled the scene and was caught hours later. Police responded just after midnight on September 1 to Auburn Heights Apartments for a reported robbery. The victim told officers that three men forced their...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse Fire Department responded to a vacant house fire on the south side of the city on Sunday, September 7. Crews from Station 3 on Bellevue Ave. arrived at the home on Lincoln Avenue in 2 minutes and found a 2 1/2-story house with smoke and fire visible in the rear of the house.

The cost to repair and maintain Onondaga County’s aging sewer system continues to add up. Lawmakers recently approved borrowing more than $60 million to pay for numerous projects. One of them is the Ley Creek Force Main, a 42-inch diameter pipe that carries sewage under pressure from 7th North Street in Liverpool to...

Syracuse Police were waved down to help a 63-year-old man with a stab wound to the arm near Westside.

The owner of a Cayuga County factory raided by federal agents last week says some detained workers have been released and production is beginning to rebound. Lenny Schmidt, co-owner of Nutrition Bar Confectioners in Ira, told The Citizen that about 10 of the 69 employees detained on Sept. 4 had been freed by the...

Syracuse, N.Y. — In June, Syracuse police checked out a 911 call on the South Side. The tip: Nicole Azzoto’s boyfriend was threatening her with a gun. The police didn’t charge anyone, but the threat was real. Three weeks later, Azzoto was shot to death by her...

Syracuse, N.Y. - Police have found a 12-year-old girl who went missing Friday. Alexis Rivera has been found and returned home safely, according to Syracuse Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Thomas Blake. Rivera was reported missing from her home on Whitwell Drive, according to a Syracuse police Facebook post on...

Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order that makes it easy and clear for New Yorkers to get the coronavirus vaccine following regulatory uncertainty over vaccine policies. Coronavirus vaccines were generally available to all adults, but the FDA recently approved the updated shots for only older and...

Syracuse is getting $1.7 million in state money to address food access. The money comes from the New York Food Access Expansion Grant Program and will be used to renovate and reopen the Valley Plaza Grocery Store on the Southside of Syracuse. It’s been vacant since 2018. The project...