Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh

Syracuse JazzFest returns June 21-25 in downtown's Clinton Square featureing Herbie Hancock, Gladys Knight, Tower of Power, Spyro Gyra and many other acts in event seen as helping community growth.

Green National would still own the properties, but wouldn't collect rent. Walsh also wants the court to make the company pay $1 million to cover repairs it's neglected to make.

After a Syracuse City School District Board of Education vote on Wednesday, Anthony Davis will take the superintendent position after being brought on as interim superintendent in July.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh proposed a new office to battle gun violence, new efforts to go after code and nuisance issues in neighborhoods, and continued development on the city's Southside in his State of the City address Thursday. He acknowledged ongoing poverty and other problems, while touting progress on job training, education gains and fiscal stability.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Mayor Ben Walsh in handing out food baskets at Syracuse's Northeast Community Center. She says child care assistance, and job supports would help the center and its clients, as well as paid family leave she's supporting in the bill that was passed by the House, but now goes to the Senate.

The Syracuse Common Council approved the mayor’s plans for a new funding for parks, public safety, and digital infrastructure.

Ben Walsh, Khalid Bey, and Janet Burman spoke at a forum held by Focus Greater Syracuse, Greening USA, and CNY Solidarity Coalition.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh’s $265 million budget is meant to position the city to recover from the pandemic, but a Councilor At Large is questioning some…

Mayor Ben Walsh is promising more actions to improve the safey and health at the embattled Skyline Apartments in Syracuse.After the suspected murder of a…

Syracuse residents that watched the State of the City address heard Mayor Ben Walsh describe progress on several fronts all, as Walsh repeated, “despite…