The Erie County Medical Examiner's office ruled the death of refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam a homicide following an autopsy.

Audit of OTB by state comptroller faults the agency's management and its board of directors for failing to adequately oversee ...

City is in such a deep financial hole that something close to the 25% increase proposed by Mayor Sean Ryan is probably unavoidable.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Buffalo Police Officer Calvis McKnight “engaged in a pattern of unlawful manual body cavity searches” according to the NY ...