A retired Buffalo police lieutenant testified in April he’d heard his colleagues use racist epithets when dealing with Black members of the public. “Probably every officer” had used the “N word” at ...

Five major municipalities in Erie County have received money to address opioid addiction. They've spent less than half of the ...

New York's public sector unions want to sweeten pension packages in this year's budget negotiations. Gov. Hochul hasn't weighed in yet.

Save the Michaels founder Avi Israel. Photo: WKBW 7 News. Avi Israel — the founder and former CEO of Save the Michaels — has been removed from the organization’s board of directors. Israel’s ouster, ...

Albany’s leaders will hash out hundreds of policies in the next three weeks as they craft the state budget. Photos: New York state Assembly; Billion Images/Canva; Bill Badzo/Flickr; Aidin ...

The streets of Buffalo are illuminated by more than 30,000 streetlights, the majority of them installed decades ago, according to the engineer who once oversaw the entire system. And every year the ...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint this morning against a Western New York realty company alleging racial discrimination among prospective homebuyers in Buffalo. The complaint accuses ...

This is how Big Brother is operating these days. “The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us,” reports the Electronic ...

Investigative Post is going to be a work in progress for the foreseeable future. This a primer on our website and how else you can follow our work. investigativepost.org will be updated daily during ...

Byron Brown answers questions from reporters at Thursday’s OTB meeting. Photo by Garrett Looker. Steven Casey, a longtime aide to Byron Brown and a political operative whose consulting firm pleaded ...