The Buffalo Chronicle
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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 a legal clock that could run out in early November.
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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’ car trips from the U.S. are still 31% below 2024 levels.
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Six Nations’ Haldimand Tract lawsuit is finally on trial, and its roots run through New York
Thirty-one years after filing suit, Six Nations of the Grand River is in court against Canada and Ontario over lost lands and trust funds, with potential damages estimated at $13.9 billion to…
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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 loom.
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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 public hearing on 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 followed him inside and…
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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 $55 million hit in…
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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 sensors.
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DHS records on Batavia ICE expansion redact the bed count and describe the structure as both hard- and soft-sided
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 describe the building differently.
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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 paid in goods to…
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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 jobs. The projected $24…
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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 got probation.
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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 County taxpayers put in,…
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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 tied to a Dec.…
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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 Miami Street fight unresolved.
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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 under the 1903 Hay–Bunau-Varilla…
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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 redevelopment. The Long Island…
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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 candidate Bruce Blakeman has…
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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 is sometimes audible on…
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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 federal designation could expand…
