Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh jumped in a kayak and paddled down Onondaga Creek this afternoon after giving a short speech at a ribbon cutting ceremony in Kirk Park. Walsh and other city officials, along ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Firefighters were putting out a fire Tuesday afternoon on the third floor of the historic Gridley Building ...

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh honored several Syracuse museums on Monday to celebrate "Downtown Syracuse Museum Day".

From floating lagoon cities to cross-country water channels, here we take a look at the most incredible canals and waterways from across the globe.

Troop 47 Life Scout Carter Kennedy is aiming to deliver a refinished canal buoy boat to the Town of Pendleton by late summer, in concert with area-wide commemorations of the Erie Canal bicentennial.

From corn-eating contests to canal-side art walks, these 11 free festivals prove you don’t need to spend big to have an unforgettable summer in Upstate NY.

Roughly half, or 3,400, are based here in Erie County. Of those employees, almost 2,700 work on our downtown Erie campus, growing by nearly 500 jobs since 2015. To put these numbers in context ...

(WJET/WFXP)– A rainy afternoon in downtown made for quite the spectacle when a ray of sunshine led a bright and beautiful rainbow over the Gem City.

Celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of New York State’s Erie Canal begin this month, offering unique recreational activities for summer vacationers. ByGary Stoller, Contributor.

How the Erie ... out from Canal communities and this new religious awakening. Notably, the Abolition Movement, the Temperance Movement, and the Women's Rights Movement. Here in Syracuse, there ...

Over the past week, Erie News Now updates have highlighted the ongoing work and projects of the Erie Downtown Development Corporation (EDDC). While much of the focus has been on physical developments, ...