Great Lakes cities like Buffalo have access to fresh water and enjoy a temperate climate that will eventually prompt an ...

A 30-year-old report indicate their property was contaminated — and that the cap containing Love Canal waste had been compromised.

Commissioner Betty Rosa's visit comes as Buffalo schools struggle with a looming financial crisis and dysfunction it ...

Amherst Town Council Member John Davis says he'll challenge the 7-term incumbent for leadership of the Erie County Democratic Committee.

I hope I’m wrong about David Hoffmann. The new chairman of Lee Enterprises, whose holdings include The Buffalo News, is hellbent on saving print newspapers. In a puff piece that ran last week in many ...

Buffalo Charter Revision Commission members Joseph Trapp, Norvella Pendergrass and Joel Moore. Photo: Joshua Thermidor. Nearly every year in recent memory, Buffalo has blown its budget for settling ...

U.S. Supreme Court. Photo: CC-BY-SA-3.0/Matt H. Wade. This story was originally published by ProPublica. In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went ...

Contracts exempted from oversight by lawmakers in the recently passed state budget include $40 million for Governor Kathy Hochul’s “More Swimming Initiative.” Photo: Susan Watts, Office of Governor ...

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, ...

Assembly Member Jonathan Rivera’s victory Tuesday in the primary for the 61st District state Senate seat throws Erie County Democrats — already split over who to support for county executive next year ...

William Hager. Photo: The Hager family. Nearly three years after a homeless veteran died in an Erie County jail by water intoxication, a state oversight body found that his death could have been ...

Former Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is solidifying his control of the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. after nearly a year of turmoil at the publicly owned gambling agency. One of his former ...