Papers like Artvoice and The Public once held sway in WNY. Such weeklies are hanging on in some cities, but the prospects of a revival in Buffalo are dim. That analysis, and other news, are featured ...

Settlements for police-related lawsuits continue to be a drag on Buffalo’s finances. Recent payouts threaten to create a deficit in the city’s current fiscal year that ends June 30, according to the ...

Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian reports on the latest revelation of government snooping into the work of journalists, this time a Washington correspondent with Fox News. Greenwald also delves into the ...

Lee Enterprises is taking another bite out of the newsroom of The Buffalo News. A big bite. Sources tell me Lee has mandated that 10 jobs be cut from a newsroom that has an estimated 55 positions.

In 1990, researchers at the University at Buffalo took a comprehensive look at what it was like to be Black and living in Buffalo. They found large numbers of African Americans were out of work, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prosecution of child pornography cases spiked last year in Western New York. Between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Erie County District Attorney, 80 cases were prosecuted last year. That’s almost ...

First, City Hall talked the state into allowing it to keep most of the money from traffic tickets issued by Buffalo police. Police then started handing out tickets in record numbers, jumping from ...

Buffalo ranked as the nation’s second-poorest city when Byron Brown took office in 2006. The following year, the mayor declared that his administration was working hard to “bring people into the ...

Statistically speaking, Buffalo is safer today than it was when Mayor Byron Brown took office in 2006. But it doesn’t feel that way to Gayla Ross. Ross lost her only son, Amir Jemes, in 2018. Jemes, ...

Wondering whether Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is giving serious consideration to mounting a write-in campaign to keep his job in November? The answer might have been in plain sight Thursday night at ...