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Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse University faces more than $5 million in permit fees to keep closed a one-block section of Comstock Avenue where it’s building two new dorms. The school and its project developer, Hayner Hoyt Corp., are hoping to work out a lower-cost alternative with Mayor Sharon Owens’ administration, but...

Salina, N.Y. - Central New York police departments looking to hire over 100 officers and jail deputies will gather for a job fair Wednesday in Salina. The jobs pay about $50,000 to $100,000 or more depending on a person’s qualifications and overtime, according to several police departments. The job...

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. Eva Zaczynski first butchered a pig at 9 years old and began working in the restaurant industry at 14. But these experiences in Poland were just the start of her food career. “You grew up...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County’s new aquarium at the Syracuse Inner Harbor is about two-thirds built, according to a briefing presented Tuesday to county lawmakers. The sea creatures are expected to move in by late July. Construction crews are doing everything they can to have the facility open by Labor Day.

Syracuse police are investigating a stabbing that left a 23-year-old man in critical condition on Monday (March 16) on East Division Street. Officers responded around 10:51 a.m. to the 700 block after receiving reports of an assault, where they discovered the victim with a stab wound to his left arm and several cuts...

St. Patrick’s Day skies surprise residents as a meteor creates a sonic boom across Ohio and New York, caught on camera by lucky witnesses.

One unseasonably warm, rainy night in mid-March, thousands of salamanders emerged from their underground burrows across Central New York. They crawled over the cold, damp earth, pulled by instinct toward vernal pools of snowmelt and rainwater where, if all went well, they’d find a mate. Amphibian enthusiasts call...

MARCELLUS, NY — Two tractor trailers collided near the intersection of Route 20 and Williams Road early Thursday morning. The Marcellus Fire Department was dispatched to the scene at 12:33 a.m. Chief Rothery arrived first and found one tractor trailer in a ditch and the other in the middle...

Photos by Bill Goldschmidt. Text by Quinn Youngs. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — This year was a special St. Patrick’s Day in Tipperary Hill. As the story goes, when the traffic light in the Tipp Hill neighborhood was first installed back in the 1920s, the green light being on the bottom enraged some Irish-American kids,...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Its days -- and donuts -- were numbered from the start. When the drive-thru Dunkin’ opened a dozen years ago in the shadow of Interstate 81, even the owner knew it almost certainly came with an expiration date. Maine developer Ed Wolak knew from the outset...