Brown will also get a raise of $10,000 — to $305,000 — on Jan. 1, 2026. Then another $10,000 raise — to $315,000 annually — ...

Buffalo is asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing the city of failing to enforce rental inspection laws.

Steven M. Casey, a longtime aide to Byron Brown and a man who’s consulting firm pleaded guilty to felony charges in 2021, will be the new chief ...

Once one of the worst banks for lending to Black home buyers, KeyBank last year made 10% of home loans to Black borrowers.

This has been a tough week for The Buffalo News with word that Editor Sheila Rayam has been ousted and former Publisher Warren Colville has died. Margaret Kenny Giancola, the paper’s managing editor, ...

The officers “pulled up in a black Taurus” and started “beating and whipping people,” according to one of several witnesses to a May 2011 altercation between Buffalo cops and a crowd of people outside ...

I wrote a column in December 2022 that posed the question: Is Byron Brown the worst mayor in America? It was prompted by his mishandling of the Christmas blizzard that year. But, as I noted then, it ...

New York state lawmakers were poised to end the 2023 legislative session Friday with no action on a pair of bills that would have drastically reformed the state’s 107 industrial development agencies.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has a fundraiser today at the Diamond Hawk golf course in Cheektowaga, with tickets starting at $100 and sponsorship packages ranging up to $5,000. Brown also held a ...

State Sen. Sean Ryan is seeking reelection this fall, but he’s certainly raising and spending money like a guy who’s running for mayor of Buffalo next year. Ryan raised $110,000 over the last three ...

The Great Northern grain elevator on the Buffalo River has been crumbling in plain sight for 28 years. Fault the building’s owner, Archer Daniels Midland. But City Hall is also complicit. Yes, the ...