The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Fix Buffalo’s leaking firehouses, but make the $20 million control board loan show its math first Western New York’s SNAP rolls fell nearly 10 percent in a year. Albany’s free school lunch promise may pay the price Niagara Falls gets $25 million toward a $338 million sewer plant fix its own engineers call unaffordable Solstice will make its Buffalo lab its global research hub, with $1.4 million in state credits for 12 new jobs Goodyear shuts its Niagara Falls chemical plant on the day its pollution fix was due. Who checks what it leaves behind? Ottawa’s watchdog prices the trade war: a smaller economy, bigger deficits and a budget target propped up by tariffs on U.S. goods Judge refuses to halt Seneca Nation’s Miami Street One Stop, rejecting Buffalo’s bid to stop construction Trump’s $8 billion diesel relief pays grain farmers first. Western New York’s dairy and fruit growers have to wait Justice Department will pay fraud tipsters up to $30,000 once charges are filed, and Trump says he’ll settle disputes himself Iran says it offered to reopen Hormuz in seven days. Until there’s a deal, Western New York pays 65% more for heating oil Buffalo’s school board votes tonight on a closure plan that changed again overnight Buffalo’s police overtime keeps climbing, and the city’s own auditors say staffing alone doesn’t explain it Buffalo nonprofits press Hochul on late state payments as two contract bills await her decision Grand Island weighs leasing town land for battery storage, but the terms aren’t public The Broadway Barns hosted Woodrow Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and pro hockey. City Hall says it will probably come down Radioactive slag was documented at a Town of Niagara drive-in in 2020. Neighbors are still waiting for answers Orchard Park’s five-story stadium zone stalls after 31 residents take the microphone Cheektowaga’s 9.8% tax plan leans hardest on the sewer district as the board clears a path past the cap Erie County Republicans try again to cap the gas tax at $2. Poloncarz, who backed a cap in 2022, calls it posturing M&T’s profit slips as rising rates bite, and its finance chief warns mortgages and commercial real estate will feel it next Hamburg adopts its first Airbnb law, with $2,000 in fees and single-family streets included Alberta votes to stay in Canada, CBC projects, after a campaign Carney cast as a stand against outside pressure Niagara Falls froze its trash fee for 2027, leaving a $1.12 million gap for the mayor’s budget Buffalo gets a second shot at federal lead money as the White House moves to cut the program by nearly two-thirds Canadians are driving back to the U.S., but not across the Peace Bridge, StatCan data show Brooklyn judge tosses Trump’s sanctuary suit against New York City and finds a key federal information-sharing law unconstitutional Hotels chosen for convenience and self-approved credit cards: what four new audits found in Western New York Taylor Devices clears IDA hearing for $8 million aerospace landing-gear expansion in North Tonawanda Traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ council challenges Cayuga Nation police appointment, saying no clan consensus approved it Buffalo’s Finest: Dion Dawkins, the Shnowman who makes the trenches look good Broadway Market’s $45 million makeover slips to 2027. Here’s what the design would change Two weeks after neighbors reported it, the state still hasn’t said where the oil in the Buffalo River is coming from Lockport’s short line gets $9.6 million from the last of the infrastructure law’s rail money. Congress hasn’t refilled the pot Powder letters hit Schumer, Gillibrand and dozens of other offices as New York heads into early voting Erie County drivers deserve license plate camera rules written by lawmakers, not by Flock Shootings are falling in most of New York’s hardest-hit cities. Buffalo and Niagara Falls are going the other way Darian Bryan’s Reserve Steakhouse is a big-night splurge in Larkinville. Here’s what the record shows Niagara County weighs fully exempting its most disabled veterans from county property taxes Erie County lawmakers killed a new jail. The plan to keep the two old ones running now costs $57 million BMHA’s director goes month to month Nov. 1, with two board seats empty and tenants pressing on safety Erie County’s budget holds Buffalo’s stages to last year’s dollars and leaves out a dozen groups its own reviewers backed 43North’s final pitch is over. The biggest return on New York’s startup bet now sits in a foundation Nearly three years of Seneca casino money sits in escrow. If the compact the Nation describes is approved, the 2023 deal sends it to arbitration Road-repair merger forces sale of Suit-Kote plants in Jamestown, Buffalo and Belmont to keep county bids competitive Still waiting on your $200 energy rebate? Most New Yorkers are, and the checks keep coming through December Buffalo Niagara added jobs again in September, but it’s the only peer region with fewer businesses than in 2020 Alden’s 2027 budget sets aside $40,000 for ambulance service as Mercy Flight takes over Dec. 1 Trump says Ukraine needs ‘somebody else’ at the table as Ukrainians’ U.S. protection passes its deadline with no decision Current Breaking