Mayor Ben Walsh

The building in downtown Syracuse last year was the site of a grisly murder, which has highlighted several ongoing issues at the complex.

The new budget includes $300,000 added by the council for a police staffing study. Mayor Ben Walsh says Chief Joe Cecile is on board, and the timing is right.

The two appointments help backfill the first chief deputy role after Joe Cecile was pulled up to lead the police department.

Two probation units will be on patrol throughout downtown this weekend.

The Mayor proposed increasing spending on city workforce, park and recreation, and more with the influx of sales and property tax collection.

Pastor Lateef Johnson-Kinsey is becoming the first director of Mayor Ben Walsh's Office to Reduce Gun Violence.

In a letter to the president, the leaders of city of Syracuse and Onondaga County offered the region as a resettling ground for those fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

At the State of City Address Mayor Walsh proposed the creation of the first ever Mayor's Office to Reduce Gun Violence. He says ‘we must do more to make out city safer, and we will.’

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh says he’s confident the law is on the city’s side as the future of the Columbus monument awaits a judge’s decision. Supporters of relocating the monument held a vigil Thursday ahead of a court hearing. Walsh says the city has been very careful to follow the process to legally relocate the monument.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh will deliver the 2022 State of the City at the JMA Wireless technology manufacturing plant on the Southside of Syracuse.