Ithaca

Ithaca Mayor Laura Lewis, who served as acting mayor for most of 2022, called her time leading the city "challenging."

There are currently 15 police officer positions that are funded but unfilled, some for over a year. When the city funds a police officer position, it must budget for 10 years of salary for that officer.

Two years after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, the City of Ithaca will adopt some of the police reforms proposed in its Reimagining Public Safety report.

WRVO has good news for listeners in Ithaca! We're now available on your radio at 88.9-FM, a frequency that should reach many more Ithaca-area listeners.

Unionized Starbucks workers in Ithaca called for a citywide boycott of the coffee chain’s stores after the company announced it would close its Collegetown location.

Two years into the pandemic, mental health care is still hard to come by. Telemedicine has helped, but many people are still waiting months for an appointment.

New York’s Attorney General has yet to issue an opinion on whether cities like Ithaca can pass their own “good cause” eviction laws.

Inspired by a successful effort to unionize a location in Buffalo in December, Starbucks workers at three locations in Ithaca said they want to follow suit.

After an anti-Semitic hostage-taking incident at a synagogue in Texas earlier this month, faith-based communities in Ithaca and across the country have looked to heal and examine how they arm themselves against hate.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick will step down in February to take a position in the non-profit sector.