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ICE's planned expansion refers to both a "soft sided" and "hard sided" temporary facility. In other places, that's meant ...

Officer Justin Tedesco shot and killed Jose Hernandez-Rossy in May 2017. Now lawmakers are poised to settle his mother's ...

Laurence Rubin, chairman of the Charter Revision Commission. Photo by Joshua Thermidor. A monthslong effort to transform how Buffalo voters elect their leaders appears to be dead. For nearly a year, ...

The state will front almost all of the $225 million needed to build a mixed-use complex at the former site of Memorial Auditorium and end up picking up more than half the bill, according to documents ...

On Saturday, when the Erie County Democratic Committee holds its biennial reorganization meeting, most political junkies will focus on Jeremy Zellner’s bid to win an eighth two-year term as party ...

Charles Dobucki’s abandoned property at 42 Cottage Street. Photo: Andre Sadoff. Scofflaw landlord Charles Dobucki is again wanted for arrest, after failing to appear in Buffalo Housing Court last ...

New signs eliminate a “law enforcement” parking zone on South Elmwood Avenue used by ICE agents. Photo by Geoff Kelly. The City of Buffalo this month quietly took away a subsidy it granted federal ...

The Niagara County IDA meets Wednesday. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. The New York Department of Labor has yet to conclude an investigation into a Niagara Falls fast food restaurateur accused of ...

The Toronto Star reported on ambitious plans to double the number of tourists visiting Niagara Falls, Ontario, which would leave the ‘Falls on our side of the border that much further in the dust. The ...

A new study recommends New York State stop spending time and money testing for lead contamination in drinking fountains and sinks in public schools and instead focus on filtering the neurotoxin out of ...

The two newest stadiums in the NFL are in Buffalo, which hosts its first home game in its new digs on Thursday, and Nashville, which the Tennessee Titans christen next season. Both carry an identical ...