One reason the city will pay $6 million to Arno's widow: officers on the scene of the blaze that killed him were working "out ...

The special election to fill the 61st District state Senate seat — vacated last week by Sean Ryan before he was sworn in as Buffalo’s mayor — is coming as quickly as state law allows. Gov. Kathy ...

Addressing the Niagara County Legislature, the gambling agency's former president and CEO disputed comptroller's criticism of his tenure.

Buffalo Police Officer Calvis McKnight (right). Photo: Buffalo Police Department Facebook. Buffalo Police Officer Calvis McKnight six years ago “engaged in a pattern of unlawful manual body cavity ...

WBEN talk show host Tom Bauerle's siblings say he cut them out of their rightful inheritance. The court battle's two years ...

The return of Henry Wojtaszek to the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. has thrown the gambling agency into turmoil, pitting the former CEO against his successor, Byron Brown. OTB insiders told ...

Niagara County Sheriff Michael Filicetti, in a policy change, has “reevaluated” his partnership with ICE and has agreed to detain fewer migrants at the Lockport jail. The sheriff, a Republican law ...

There’s a lot of depressing statistics about Western New York and its economy. Our job growth is stagnant and our population is shrinking. I came across a most distressing statistic in the current ...

A good government watchdog asked legislators for their appointment calendars. He was told there were none to be had. Now he's ...

This story was originally published by the Investigative Journalism Bureau, which conducts collaborative research projects with academics and journalists while training student researchers and ...

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans in 2013 for what is now Tesla’s factory in South Buffalo, he pitched it as a cornerstone of the “clean energy revolution” and a new high-tech industrial sector ...

A new stadium for the Buffalo Bills would boost the Western New York economy as much as a new Target store. Which is to say, very little. While some supporting construction of a new stadium maintain ...