After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the ...

U.S. News & World Report ranked the best places to live and retire in New York state in 2026, and Ithaca made the lists. Overall, U.S. News ranked the 250 Best Places to Retire and the 250 Best Places ...

The Building Recreational Infrastructure for Communities, Kids and Seniors (NY BRICKS) capital grant program awarded funds to community center projects across the state, including three in the ...

Brekland of Brooklyn won the $1 million grand prize in the Grow-NY agribusiness competition held this year in Canandaigua. (Photo credit: New York State) CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — An Ithaca business secured ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WENY) — The City of Ithaca is ending free parking on Saturdays after the Common Council passed the 2026 budget. The measure came in amendments to the spending plan after Ithaca announced ...

The leaves aren’t the only reds upstate this fall. After Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won last week’s New York mayoral race, an upstate city has gone one better by electing a full-blown ...

As the voter registration deadline approaches on Oct. 25, The Sun prepared a voting guide with all the information needed to vote in the New York state municipal elections on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Deadline ...

New York will spend over $600 million on at least 180 road paving projects in 2026. The plan will resurface nearly 2,150 lane miles across every region of the state. Projects include work on I-86 in ...

Looking for a great fall day trip in New York? It doesn’t get much better than Ithaca. As the home of Cornell University, it’s got a great college town atmosphere. Another big draw is its beautiful ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sept. 10, 2025 — One of the rarest New York species lives near Syracuse. It is a tiny and jewel-like animal called the Chittenango ovate amber snail (COAS). This special land snail ...

People Live Their Whole Lives in New York and Somehow Miss These 3 Places There’s something magical about fall in New York, and few places capture the season’s charm quite like Ithaca. Located on the ...