The Buffalo Chronicle
City & Region
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The Bills stadium’s 6% surcharge has raised $2.88 million for Erie County in two months. None of it stays in the county
The charge on tickets, parking, food and merchandise at Highmark Stadium is passed to the state each April 30. Here is what the 2022 agreement says and what the comptroller calls the…
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Buffalo says it has 44 pieces of snow equipment and 3,000 tons of salt ready, as the first snow of the season nears
Public Works Commissioner Nolan Skipper told the Common Council the city is “ready to go.” Here is what is in the fleet, what is new on side streets, and who runs a…
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New York sues Interior to strip two Seneca parcels of sovereign status. The case turns on where the money came from
The state filed two federal suits Friday challenging Interior’s restricted-fee decisions for Seneca Nation land in Buffalo and on Grand Island. Here is what each side claims, what the record shows, and…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Buffalo picks a former police precinct in the Old First Ward for its new animal shelter
Mayor Sean Ryan says the city will turn the former police station at 294 Louisiana St. into a modern animal shelter, replacing the cramped Oak Street building.
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Buffalo Urban League gets $5 million in state aid for Jefferson Avenue headquarters
Gov. Hochul announced $5 million toward the Urban League’s $25 million campus at 1137 Jefferson Ave.
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Buffalo adds snowblower tractors, contractor money and plow tracking to clear side streets
Buffalo’s DPW is adding seven snowblower tractors, a $2 million contractor budget and plow technology aimed at side streets.
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Young Development buys the land for its $25 million Village Walk senior apartments in East Aurora as plans head to the Planning Commission
Young Development paid $1.2 million for 11 acres on Quaker Road for a 118-unit, 55-and-older complex. The project, which divided residents at a July rezoning vote, goes to the village Planning Commission…
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UB-trained planner Brian Smith wants to turn North Tonawanda’s empty DeGraff hospital tower into senior housing
The UB communication and urban planning graduate runs real estate development for People Inc. His biggest pending test is converting the vacant DeGraff Memorial Hospital bed tower into about 70 senior apartments,…
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The Swannie House, closed two years, is headed for a $300,000 rehab under new owners
Kevin and Brian Gould and Ellicott Development CEO William Paladino are under contract to buy the 1886 Old First Ward tavern at 170 Ohio St. They plan to reopen it in early…
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Ryan’s arts task force wants a city culture department and an end to grants with “no transparent, equitable process”
Mayor Sean Ryan’s CREATE Task Force recommends a $150,000 Department of Arts and Culture, a competitive process for city arts grants and a cultural plan anchored to the 2032 bicentennial. The Common…
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Albany Democrats send $196,000 to defend McMahon as public matching money fuels McGuire’s Amherst challenge
The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee moved $196,000 to Assembly Member Karen McMahon before a $236,000 TV buy, while Republican Terry McGuire has drawn more public matching money than she has in the…
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Chautauqua IDA is hiring engineers to see if 500 lakeshore acres at Eagle Bay can become an industrial park
Proposals were due Monday for engineering and environmental work on the vacant Eagle Bay site in Sheridan, funded by $1.35 million. The IDA says it has no tenant or market study yet,…
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A Buffalo-made battery moves into a West Side apartment building as Dunkirk pauses storage projects
Viridi and Good Carbon say they have installed a 3.75-megawatt-hour, state-backed battery system inside the 105-unit Peace Bridge Place, as Dunkirk’s council passes a six-month moratorium on battery storage applications.
