Syracuse NY

At 4:07 p.m. on Saturday, the National Weather Service released a flash flood warning in effect until 7:15 p.m. for Cayuga, Onondaga and Seneca counties.

Ask enough hikers and you will hear the same warning about New York: the mileage may look modest, but the terrain is not. Nearly 90 miles of the trail cut through the state with rocky climbs, rooty descents, tight ridgelines, humid forests, and constant ups and downs that test legs fast.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A house fire on Lodi Street happened on Saturday morning. The Syracuse Fire Department responded to the house fire, after they heard reports of people possibly trapped inside. When fire crews arrived on the scene, heavy smoke and fire was found coming from the second floor.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office has been sitting on roughly $10 billion in unclaimed funds, and a program launched in January 2025 now sends checks directly to verified owners of small accounts without requiring them to file a claim. Through April 2026, the Expedited Payment Program had issued more

Just north of Syracuse, a semiconductor project with a potential price tag of $100 billion is beginning to reshape the conversation around Upstate New York, a region that for decades has been better known for factory closures, population loss, and the long shadow of the Rust Belt.

The firefighter was taken to a hospital due to a heat-related illness.

With all Rite Aid locations in New York now closed, communities in the Hudson Valley are buzzing about potential new businesses taking over those vacant spots.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — After our first heat wave of the year and some severe weather this week, we're now focused on how the fourth of July holiday weekend weather will be. After some morning cloud cover, rain and even a few rumbles of thunder between 5 am and 11 am, but then the sun will come out around 11, noon 1 pm.

Going back 45 years, Frankie Liles shared a room in the old Kennedy Square housing complex with his younger brother, Blue. Every night, Liles would use a pen or whatever tool he had available to etch more deeply the same message in the wood railing of his bunk bed, where he slept above his brother:

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Parts of Central New York experienced severe thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening just as we had in the forest over the past few days. While most locations did not see any storm damage, there were a few reports in some counties where trees were knocked over due to damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph