The Buffalo Chronicle
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Erie County’s 2026 count isn’t finished. The 143rd Assembly race shows what is still left to tally
Five days after Election Day, Democrat Ryan Taughrin leads Assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski by 561 votes with about 800 absentees outstanding. Here is the Erie County Board of Elections’ canvass calendar, the recount…
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Langworthy, Tenney and Kennedy head back to a House that Democrats will run
Western New York reelected all four of its House members, but Democrats won control of the chamber. Rep. Nick Langworthy says he is ready for the minority; Rep. Tim Kennedy returns to…
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Abuse survivors approve the Buffalo Diocese’s $327 million settlement plan, with court approval still to come
All but three of 541 voting claimants backed the Buffalo Diocese’s $327 million bankruptcy plan. A Nov. 18 hearing, insurance agreements and individual awards still lie ahead.
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Haldimand Tract trial resumes Monday after a Six Nations witness described language loss and displacement
The Six Nations land-rights trial returns Nov. 9 with Professor Alan Taylor scheduled to testify. Turtle Island News has published the first account of Joseph Martin’s testimony, and community viewing access ends…
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UB pauses its Flock camera pilot indefinitely, and hands the decision to a committee that has met twice
President Caroline Attardo Genco has paused the University at Buffalo’s planned 20-camera license plate reader trial and asked a police advisory committee to gather campus input. Some committee members say they were…
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Hamburg votes unanimously to pause data centers for a year, and officials say nothing is proposed
Hamburg’s Town Board voted 5-0 Monday for a one-year moratorium on data-center applications and permits. Officials said no project is proposed and the town wants time to update its zoning rules.
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Rachel Martinez wins Cheektowaga’s special Town Board election as voters also back term limits
Democrat Rachel Martinez defeated Republican David DeFields Jr. in unofficial results for Cheektowaga’s open Town Board seat. Voters also approved 12-year term limits by a wide margin.
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Fantasy Island is still for sale, and Grand Island is waiting to learn what comes next
Seven weeks after the former Fantasy Island site was listed for just under $5 million, no buyer has been announced. Grand Island’s supervisor says the town can only make introductions, and some…
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West Seneca neighbors want a Thruway sound wall, but state rules leave little room for one
Covington Drive residents say Thruway noise has gotten worse since National Fuel cleared trees along a pipeline corridor. The town will price a noise study, but state policy says a sound wall…
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Erie County’s helicopter deal shows how its purchasing office slipped past its own guardrails
An April audit says Erie County’s purchasing office let one helicopter become two without legislative review, paid a deposit to the wrong vendor and could not document much of its own work.…
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Election Day in Western New York: polls open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. after nearly 100,000 early votes in Erie County
Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Here is where to vote, what is on the ballot, and what record early voting does and does not tell us.
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Buffalo’s school closure plan is headed for changes, with no new vote date yet
The Buffalo Board of Education has not rescheduled its vote on closing and merging schools. The interim superintendent says the plan will likely be modified, and the district warns the deficit could…
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Niagara power and Albany spending frame the Bologna-Sholk race in the 144th Assembly District
Republican Assemblyman Paul Bologna says New York cannot spend its way to prosperity. Democrat Donna Dye Sholk wants unallocated Niagara hydropower sent to Erie and Niagara county households. Here is where the…
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Trump’s $15 billion in farm promises lands days before the midterms, and New York growers want Albany to add diesel relief
The Trump administration has pledged more than $15 billion to farmers hit by record diesel prices in the final weeks before Election Day. Farm groups welcome the help, critics call it a…
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Station Twelve opens its first stores Thursday, 11 years after Amherst was promised a new Northtown Plaza
Five stores open at Amherst’s Station Twelve on Nov. 5, 11 years after WS Development bought Northtown Plaza. Here’s what the town was promised, the permit and tax fights along the way,…
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Erie County’s new South Park shelter will stay open on warm nights, too, and local taxpayers will cover those nights
Erie County’s lease on the former Buffalo Creek Academy began Nov. 1. County documents show the shelter will run 24/7 all winter, with local funds paying for nights the state won’t reimburse,…
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Carney and Trump say a trade deal is back in reach, but Ottawa warns it is “not on the verge” before the midterms
Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump spoke Sunday and say their teams will work toward a trade deal in the coming weeks. Canadian sources caution that key elements, led by…
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On Election Day, the Supreme Court takes up Catholic preschools shut out of Colorado’s free pre-K
The justices open their November session Monday and hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy on Tuesday, a test of whether states can require religious preschools to follow the same enrollment rules…
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Seneca voters pick a new president Tuesday, and with it the next negotiator on an unsigned casino compact
Councilor Tina Abrams, the Seneca Party nominee, would be the Nation’s first woman president. She would inherit a compact standoff in which Gov. Hochul says there is no agreement and the outgoing…
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Herzog tells Israel’s leaders to ‘stop climbing trees’ as Arab parties line up behind Eisenkot
Israel’s president opens coalition consultations Wednesday after a deadlocked election. The Arab parties are expected to back Gadi Eisenkot, which would give him 67 recommendations, while Netanyahu privately keeps a unity deal…
