Syracuse NY

According to a former Capital Region meteorologist, December 2025 was one of our most brutal winter weather months.

TOWN OF WORTH, N.Y. (WWTI) – One person was killed after a New Year’s Day snowmobile crash in Jefferson County. Around 1 p.m. Thursday, a fatal snowmobile accident occurred on Waite Road in the town of Worth, resulting in one death. Two males were operating snowmobiles on Junction...

We start the New Year right where we left off 2025, with heavy lake effect snow although the hardest hit spots this time will likely be north of Syracuse and into Oswego County. Strong arctic westerly winds across Lake Ontario overnight into Friday will fuel persistent lake effect snow bands...

A two-month-old was hospitalized after being hit in the head by a video game console hard drive during a domestic dispute between her parents, resulting in a skull fracture and brain bleed.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Here's to new beginnings, AND newborns!. St. Joseph’s Health Hospital announced its first baby born in 2026. The perfectly healthy baby boy came into the world at 1:54 a.m., weighing in at 6lbs 12.5 ounces. All of us at CNY Central want to congratulate and...

Happy New Year! New Year’s Day is a federal holiday marking the first day of the calendar year. Jan. 1, 2026, is Thursday. Some businesses and institutions close early for New Year’s Eve on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, and stay closed on New Year’s Day. Others may be open with modified hours.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Murders and crime in general fell significantly in Syracuse in 2025, continuing a steep decline seen nationwide in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic. There were 14 homicides in the city last year, the fewest in more than a decade and a 56% decline from the pandemic-era peak. It’s the fewest...

Crisp air, crunchy leaves, and a warm bag of sugar dusted donuts might be the fastest way to unlock fall nostalgia. If that first bite tastes like orchard sunshine and cinnamon, you are in the right place. These New York spots deliver fresh pressed cider and donuts still steaming from the fryer, so you can savor...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Police Officer John Canestrare was giving chest compressions to a woman he found Friday morning lying on the ground outside a house that was on fire. The woman had burns, Canestrare told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. He said one of her feet was severely broken, so it was almost detached from her...

Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation to eliminate the “100-foot-rule” for new natural gas hookups that costs New Yorkers hundreds of millions of dollars a year. “It’s simply unfair, especially when so many people are struggling right now, to expect existing utility ratepayers to foot the bill for a gas...