Syracuse NY

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...

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. Syracuse University’s chapter of Zeta Beta Tau is the latest of five Greek Life organizations under investigation by the Office of Community Standards, according to SU’s Hazing Awareness Hub. The fraternity’s Omicron...

Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards is adding another country concert its 2026 lineup in Central New York. Dustin Lynch will perform at Beak & Skiff in LaFayette on Friday, June 19. Doors open at 5 p.m.; music begins at 7. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 20, at 10 a.m....

Rex Culpepper, a Tampa lawyer, cancer survivor, and former college and high school quarterback, was killed in a dirt bike accident in Georgia over the weekend. He was 28. Official details of the accident were not available, but his death was confirmed by Syracuse University and in a somber online post by his fiancée...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Helping Hounds Dog Rescue is receiving 42 dogs that will become available for you to adopt. On Tuesday, in a Facebook post, the animal shelter said the dogs will arrive on March 21. The dogs are between the ages of 7 months and 2 years old.

Regarding “Syracuse schools hire a consultant for $715k, over objections: ‘This needs to be better thought out’ ” (March 13, 2026):. As a veteran educator and city resident for over half a century, I am opposed to my school taxpayer dollars going to pay for yet another consultant who claims to have the answer to...