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Tops gunman’s lawyers say Western New York’s jury lists shortchange Black residents as death-penalty jury selection begins
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Canadians are driving back to the U.S., but not across the Peace Bridge, StatCan data show
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Niagara County weighs suing Albany over immigration law it says shields noncitizen voting, though the law exempts election work
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Canadians are driving back to the U.S., but not across the Peace Bridge, StatCan data show
Canadian car trips home from the U.S. rose 5.6% in September. At Fort Erie, the Canadian end of the Peace Bridge, they…
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Niagara County weighs suing Albany over immigration law it says shields noncitizen voting, though the law exempts election work
The Niagara County Legislature votes Tuesday on suing the state over a new limit on helping immigration agents, arguing it protects ‘illegal…
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Buffalo Water Board sues 17 companies over PFAS in Lake Erie as city tests show levels near federal limit
The Water Board’s lawsuit targets makers of PFAS firefighting foam. Buffalo Water’s own report shows PFOS in treated water at up to…
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A year after Trump’s promise, New York is still owed $87 million in counterterror grants
Thirteen New York Democrats are demanding DHS release $87 million in counterterror grants still owed to the state. Erie County says the…
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Tops gunman’s lawyers say Western New York’s jury lists shortchange Black residents as death-penalty jury selection begins
Payton Gendron’s lawyers moved to dismiss his federal indictment the day before jury selection, arguing Black residents are systematically underrepresented in the district’s jury lists. Here is what they must prove, and what could fix it.
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Gillibrand bill would let Washington and the Seneca Nation end New York’s criminal jurisdiction on Seneca land
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Hochul opens $76 million county infrastructure round, raising housing-linked award caps
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Taylor Devices clears IDA hearing for $8 million aerospace landing-gear expansion in North Tonawanda
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Love Canal family wants out of its 99th Street home. The state says the data don’t show the landfill is to blame
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Six Nations’ Haldimand Tract lawsuit is finally on trial, and its roots run through New York
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With talks stalled and a Jan. 1 auto tariff looming, the Niagara Frontier braces for a longer trade war
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Buffalo Water Board sues 17 companies over PFAS in Lake Erie as city tests show levels near federal limit
The Water Board’s lawsuit targets makers of PFAS firefighting foam. Buffalo Water’s own report shows PFOS in treated…
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City declares Broadway Barns emergency after concrete panels fall, winter plow gear at risk
Mayor Sean Ryan declared an emergency at the Broadway Barns after concrete panels fell onto plow equipment, leaving…
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Poloncarz’s $2.4 billion budget trims the tax rate but raises the levy as federal cuts loom
Erie County’s proposed 2027 budget cuts the tax rate to $3.01 but collects $12.7 million more. It also…
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Buffalo school board faces vote on eight closures as da Vinci students push back
The Buffalo Board of Education could vote Oct. 21 on a plan to close eight schools, merge da…
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Hochul opens $76 million county infrastructure round, raising housing-linked award caps
Gov. Kathy Hochul opened a $76 million county infrastructure round with higher award caps for projects that unlock…
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New York is $7.3 billion ahead of its tax forecast at midyear. Watchdogs are split on what to do with it
Comptroller DiNapoli reports state tax receipts ran $7.3 billion above projections through September, driven by Wall Street and…
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Dollar General overcharged state investigators on 14% of items. The settlement refunds no shoppers
AG Letitia James’s $1.875 million deal with Dollar General follows secret-shopper visits in Erie and three Finger Lakes…
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Hochul raises heating aid for oil users, but at WNY prices the bigger check buys a third less fuel
HEAP opens Nov. 2 with a $990 base benefit for oil, kerosene and propane. With Western New York…
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A year after Trump’s promise, New York is still owed $87 million in counterterror grants
Thirteen New York Democrats are demanding DHS release $87 million in counterterror grants still owed to the state.…
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With talks stalled and a Jan. 1 auto tariff looming, the Niagara Frontier braces for a longer trade war
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says Washington is “holding fast” with Canada. New Statistics Canada data show Canadians’…
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DHS records on Batavia ICE expansion leave out beds, staffing and even whether it’s a tent
Documents released by Rep. Tim Kennedy show a $16.7 million no-bid contract for a women’s detention structure in…
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Trump urged to ‘seize Panama on paper’ to construct new canals, transcontinental railways
WASHINGTON — Matthew Ricchiazzi, a Washington-based political consultant and founder of Enkindle Capital, is urging President Donald Trump…
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Bend police say teen gunman scaled a fence and shot through locked doors before a father stopped him
Police say a 16-year-old former student climbed a fence and shot through locked glass doors at Silver Rail…
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Pro-Israel PAC goes in balls deep with San Francisco’s Wiener
By Staff Reporter State Senator Scott Wiener, the leading candidate to succeed Nancy Pelosi in California’s 11th Congressional…
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Storied Buffalo attorney, Jim Ostrowski, may become National Chairman of the Libertarian Party
By Staff Reporter February 23, 2026 In the ever-evolving world of American third-party politics, the Libertarian Party (LP) stands…
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Oprah and Gayle: a top secret plan to save CBS Mornings
By Staff Reporter NEW YORK, NY – January 17, 2026 – In the cutthroat world of morning television, where…
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Niagara County weighs suing Albany over immigration law it says shields noncitizen voting, though the law exempts election work
The Niagara County Legislature votes Tuesday on suing the state over a new limit on helping immigration agents,…
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Taylor Devices clears IDA hearing for $8 million aerospace landing-gear expansion in North Tonawanda
Taylor Devices cleared an NCIDA public hearing for an $8 million aerospace landing-gear expansion in vacant North Tonawanda…
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Love Canal family wants out of its 99th Street home. The state says the data don’t show the landfill is to blame
A petition to relocate the McKiernan family and reinvestigate Love Canal puts the DEC and Health Department on…
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Amazon’s Town of Niagara warehouse is hiring. Now comes the test of its $123 million tax break
Amazon is hiring up to 1,000 workers at its Lockport Road fulfillment center, backed by one of the…
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Tops gunman’s lawyers say Western New York’s jury lists shortchange Black residents as death-penalty jury selection begins
Payton Gendron’s lawyers moved to dismiss his federal indictment the day before jury selection, arguing Black residents are…
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Buffalo-to-Jamestown drug ring case ends in pleas, with sentences far below the maximums
All seven defendants in the attorney general’s fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine case pleaded guilty. The alleged leader got…
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Parolee pleads guilty to attempted possession of an illegal gun
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 34-year-old Shawn A. Saunders of Buffalo pleaded guilty this…
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Jury finds Frank Bredt guilty of murdering girlfriend by setting her on fire
This week 33-year-old Frank J. Bredt, Jr. of Buffalo guilty of two counts of Murder in the Second…
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Taylor Devices clears IDA hearing for $8 million aerospace landing-gear expansion in North Tonawanda
Taylor Devices cleared an NCIDA public hearing for an $8 million aerospace landing-gear expansion in vacant North Tonawanda…
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Upstate Niagara’s West Seneca dairy expansion has more than doubled in cost. Now it’s back for more tax relief
The farmer-owned cooperative’s plan has grown from $150 million to $325 million in two years, and it needs…
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Amazon’s Town of Niagara warehouse is hiring. Now comes the test of its $123 million tax break
Amazon is hiring up to 1,000 workers at its Lockport Road fulfillment center, backed by one of the…
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Pandemic drove largest New York population loss ever
BY E.J. McMAHON Thanks mainly to a pandemic-driven boost in its already high outflows to other states, New…
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New York is $7.3 billion ahead of its tax forecast at midyear. Watchdogs are split on what to do with it
Comptroller DiNapoli reports state tax receipts ran $7.3 billion above projections through September, driven by Wall Street and business taxes, even as $31.7 billion in out-year budget gaps…
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Upstate Niagara’s West Seneca dairy expansion has more than doubled in cost. Now it’s back for more tax relief
The farmer-owned cooperative’s plan has grown from $150 million to $325 million in two years, and it needs $30 million in generators because grid power isn’t available. A…
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Bend police say teen gunman scaled a fence and shot through locked doors before a father stopped him
Police say a 16-year-old former student climbed a fence and shot through locked glass doors at Silver Rail Elementary, killing three children and a teacher, before a parent…
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Poloncarz’s $2.4 billion budget trims the tax rate but raises the levy as federal cuts loom
Erie County’s proposed 2027 budget cuts the tax rate to $3.01 but collects $12.7 million more. It also absorbs $13.8 million in new SNAP costs, with a possible…
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Waymo brings robotaxi testing to Toronto, setting up a winter test Buffalo will watch
Waymo says its self-driving cars will begin mapping Toronto streets within days, with driverless rides targeted for 2028. A Queen’s University expert warns that snow can blind the…
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DHS records on Batavia ICE expansion leave out beds, staffing and even whether it’s a tent
Documents released by Rep. Tim Kennedy show a $16.7 million no-bid contract for a women’s detention structure in Batavia. The bed count is redacted, and DHS and ICE…
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Dollar General overcharged state investigators on 14% of items. The settlement refunds no shoppers
AG Letitia James’s $1.875 million deal with Dollar General follows secret-shopper visits in Erie and three Finger Lakes counties and hundreds of failed price inspections. The penalty is…
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Buffalo-to-Jamestown drug ring case ends in pleas, with sentences far below the maximums
All seven defendants in the attorney general’s fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine case pleaded guilty. The alleged leader got 10 years after facing up to 24, and two defendants…
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Buffalo school board faces vote on eight closures as da Vinci students push back
The Buffalo Board of Education could vote Oct. 21 on a plan to close eight schools, merge da Vinci and Research Lab at East High and cut 108…
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Amazon’s Town of Niagara warehouse is hiring. Now comes the test of its $123 million tax break
Amazon is hiring up to 1,000 workers at its Lockport Road fulfillment center, backed by one of the largest Amazon incentive packages in the country. Here’s what Niagara…
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Hochul raises heating aid for oil users, but at WNY prices the bigger check buys a third less fuel
HEAP opens Nov. 2 with a $990 base benefit for oil, kerosene and propane. With Western New York heating oil at $6.44 a gallon and federal LIHEAP money…
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Federal judge sends Buffalo’s Seneca One Stop lawsuit back to state court, denies emergency halt
Judge Meredith Vacca remanded the city’s case against Seneca Nation leaders to Erie County Supreme Court and said she lacked authority to grant a restraining order, leaving the…
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Trump urged to ‘seize Panama on paper’ to construct new canals, transcontinental railways
WASHINGTON — Matthew Ricchiazzi, a Washington-based political consultant and founder of Enkindle Capital, is urging President Donald Trump to “seize Panama on paper” by invoking original U.S. rights…
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Blakeman revives Amazon HQ2 project, likes Hirschfeld Properties for rail yard redevelopment
Blakeman expresses private desire to revive Amazon HQ2 project in Long Island City — and wants to make a waterfront rail yard owned by the MTA available for…
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Blakeman will seek ‘Trump funds’ to expand discount airports in NYC suburbs
Expansion of airport terminals at MacArthur, Westchester, and Stewart airports would accommodate discount flights to tourist destinations, alleviating congestion at LGA, JFK Nassau County Executive and Republican gubernatorial…
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Blakeman pledges to address Western New York’s toxic legacy
BY STAFF REPORTER On a stretch of Fox Avenue in the Town of Niagara, where lawns sit beside modest postwar houses and the distant roar of the falls…
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Blakeman may explore National Park status for Adirondacks to boost tourism, federal funding
Nassau County Executive and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman has floated the idea of elevating New York’s Adirondack Park—or significant portions of it—to National Park status, arguing that…
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Blakeman is determined to deliver a Major League sports franchise for Rochester, and it’s most likely soccer
Rochester has been a major league city before. It has not been one in a long time, and the distance between those two facts is the whole argument.…
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Blakeman wants to transfer Brooklyn Army Terminal to Cornell for new medical research campus
BY STAFF REPORTER Bruce Blakeman is privately floating a bold proposal for the Brooklyn Army Terminal that starts from a fact the City has lived with for forty…
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Blakeman’s plan to save Syracuse University would adopt Cornell’s governance model
BY STAFF REPORTER Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s soon to be announced plan to save Syracuse University from closure does not ask the state to buy the campus,…
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Since childhood, Blakeman wanted to bring Major League Baseball back to Brooklyn. His supporters could make it happen.
The last major-league pitch thrown in Brooklyn was in 1957. The Brooklyn Dodgers left for Los Angeles after that season, Ebbets Field came down in 1960, and the…
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Blakeman will ‘wipe Cuomo’s name off the Tappen Zee Bridge, Republican activist predicts
ALBANY — A Republican activist in Westchester County with ties to Bruce Blakeman’s campaign has told associates that if the Nassau County executive becomes governor, he will take…
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If Blakeman wins Governorship, Trump is open to bankrolling the reconstruction of NYC Subway system — but not if Hochul is reelected
WASHINGTON — President Trump is open to a federal reconstruction of the New York City subway, people familiar with the discussions say, on a condition his allies have…
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Kathy Hochul denies wanting to ‘Make Nassau County the Sixth Borough of NYC.’ Why doesn’t anyone believe her?
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul does not, her aides insist, want to make Nassau County the sixth borough of New York City. She has said so in different…
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Mamdani worries Blakeman will let Staten Island become its own City
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has begun to say, in private and increasingly in public, that a Bruce Blakeman governorship would do more than reverse the city’s progressive turn. It…
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Tina Abrams wins Seneca Party nomination for President, poised to become first woman to hold the office
Longtime Council Member poised to become first woman to serve as Seneca Nation President SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Tina Abrams, a longtime councilor of the Seneca Nation of Indians…
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Seneca Tribal Council could lease Niagara Falls Reservation to individual tribal members to boost development
The Niagara Falls Territory is only about 56 acres, but it is one of the most valuable pieces of restricted-fee land the Seneca Nation holds. It sits next…
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Would reforming tribal member annuities ease the Seneca Nation’s drug crisis?
By Staff Reporter The trafficking problem on Seneca territories is documented by the Nation’s own leadership. Presidents have told Congress that non-Indian dealers use the reservations because jurisdiction…
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Robert Jones says Todd Gates is to blame for Seneca gaming compact debacle, as Tribal Council candidates trade throes
CATTARAUGUS TERRITORY, N.Y. — Two weeks before the Seneca Nation’s Sept. 18 caucus, the argument over who lost the gaming compact with New York has moved from Council…
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Losses at Seneca Holdings upend tribal elections, as members voice fury on social media
CATTARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY TERRITORIES, N.Y. — Two weeks before the Seneca Nation’s Sept. 18 Seneca Party caucus, the race to lead more than 8,500 enrolled citizens is no…
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ORELL: Richard Franke left a legacy on the liberal arts education
By Brent Orell This weekend, the Wall Street Journal marked the passing of Richard J. Franke,…
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TEWS: 5G, Planes, and Progress
By Shane Tews Last week, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s…
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ABRAMS: New England liberal arts colleges are dangerous to American civility
BY SAMUEL J. ABRAMS With their leafy campuses, visually diverse student bodies, well-stocked libraries, and attentive…
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PETHOKOUKIS: So Big Tech massively investing in itself is worrisome now?
By James Pethokoukis Imagine a world much like this one where the most valuable companies were…
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POMERLEAU: A progressive corporate income tax doesn’t make a lot of sense
By Kyle Pomerleau The House version of the budget reconciliation bill includes a provision to raise the corporate…
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