The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Canadian car trips into Western New York are creeping back. Trucks on the Peace Bridge are not Torn Space Theater’s twelve summers at Silo City move into a museum retrospective at the Burchfield Penney Lancaster police publish their first annual report: 41 uses of force, and more than half involved a person in crisis Hotel Niagara has carried six price tags. Before more public help, the state and Niagara County should publish one current cost The Manhattan Institute says Albany should pass housing-supply bills without a trade. Western New York should push for the ones that fit upstate Trump’s envoys say Ukraine peace talks will widen to include Europe after meeting Putin in Moscow and Zelensky in Dublin Buffalo schools’ finance chief says the district could run out of cash in December 2027 without a closure decision Catholic Health will require staff to mask starting Monday as an early flu season takes off in Western New York Sweet Home’s $90.5 million school project starts at Maplemere in spring 2027, and the district is holding an open forum Nov. 17 Lancaster village’s Airbnb law would bar short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods unless the owner lives there The Sabres have one regulation loss on the road and six at home. Now 10 of their next 12 games are away Tommy Hilfiger, the Elmira kid who opened a jeans shop at 18, still dresses the world in red, white and blue Ten years after Lackawanna’s 11-day Bethlehem Steel fire, a jury has blamed the owner and tenant. The damages are the next question Ottawa renews its Red Dress Alert pilot. Indigenous women’s groups say the rest of the budget leaves them out Interior’s new five-year plan would offer federal land for sale to states, localities and tribes. Here is what the document says, and what it leaves out Haldimand trial witness acknowledged Confederacy chiefs are staying out of the case over jurisdiction, Six Nations summary says A judge keeps Six Nations’ elected council out of the HDI lawsuit, and leaves open who holds Haldimand Tract rights Albany has a $9 billion surplus and a SNAP bill on the way. It should not hand that bill to Erie County taxpayers The Empire Center finds Buffalo spends more on educator pay per student than any other Big Five district. That number belongs in the school closure debate Twelve senators ask Congress to drop a Gillibrand-backed U.S.-Israel defense technology initiative from the final defense bill Trump says the U.S. has won the Iran war and will decide when it ends, as Tehran denies talks and keeps Hormuz closed Dorothy Myo, a fluent Saulteaux speaker, becomes Canada’s Indigenous languages commissioner as the office’s finances are under review Orchard Park adopts a 2027 budget with a 5.9% tax levy increase after cutting $414,929 Depew’s first female police officer helped run a statewide training conference for about 200 women in law enforcement Man-Aung Sushi’s second shop brings $6 rolls and poke bowls to Main Street across from Canisius New York won’t reopen the Love Canal neighborhood investigation. The family that found waste in its backyard is still waiting on tests Buffalo is paving over its brick streets one block at a time. On Eden Street, a landmark bid has stopped the asphalt for now Grand Island’s budget would raise the general fund tax rate 15% and the sewer rate 25%, as the board approves a battery lease on town land UB alum Russell Agrusa signed the last beam of the $111 million engineering hall that will carry his name Erie County’s permanently disabled veterans will owe no county tax on their homes, and Buffalo State plans a veterans center on Elmwood Hotel Niagara’s restoration has carried six price tags, from $42 million to $66.6 million. The county tax-break file still says $44 million Erie County cleared its child care waitlist. The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Kentucky lessons show what Western New York should do next New York’s $9 billion surplus goes to reserves and debt, while a SNAP cost Erie County puts at up to $50 million a year sits outside the state plan On Veterans Day, Buffalo’s 1949 VA hospital has no replacement planned. Secretary Collins says a new one costs too much Chludzinski concedes the 143rd Assembly District to Taughrin after a 570-vote count Summit Center buys a Sweet Home Road building to shrink a 500-child preschool waiting list, and still needs about $3.5 million Cheektowaga’s board rejects cuts and tables a 9.8% tax levy increase, with a Nov. 20 budget deadline ahead Wicked Warren’s turned Jamestown’s empty brewery into a wood-fired pizza hall. Here’s what the record shows A 43-acre Eden farm is headed for permanent protection, and the land conservancy says leased farmland is especially vulnerable Schumer says he is confident of becoming majority leader as Sanders and Slotkin call for change and Gillibrand defends him The House shelves the Hegseth impeachment articles, 211-204. Here is how Langworthy, Tenney and Kennedy voted, and what the charges say Buffalo’s police overtime is a hiring problem and a budgeting problem, and City Hall should fix both now North Tonawanda voters back an $18 million community center, and the city’s seniors and teens get out of borrowed space The Bills stadium surcharge is beating its forecast, and Erie County should publish where every dollar goes AEI says the data-center backlash collides with plans to tax them. Western New York’s towns should use their pause to decide Schumer and Gillibrand vote to advance the permitting overhaul as New York activists urged a ‘no’ Hegseth asks Congress for $350 billion more as Senate Democrats weigh using the Dec. 11 funding bill to end the Iran war Buffalo police overtime to cover minimum staffing jumped 65% in a year, and new officers are two years away Current Breaking