The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html State audits flag a $346,000 fire hall overrun in Lancaster, questioned meal spending in Le Roy and lapsed school door badges across WNY Israel’s partial count puts Netanyahu’s bloc ahead but short of a majority after record turnout Albany should send Hochul the Richardson campus land bill, and she should sign it Chow’s second term opens with a $1.1-billion hole and a cooling housing market Western New York has one in nine of the state’s cannabis shops but gets about one in 15 dollars of the local pot tax Young Development buys the land for its $25 million Village Walk senior apartments in East Aurora as plans head to the Planning Commission Federal survey finds serious violent crime fell 25 percent in 2025, with caveats from a redesigned count New laws make hotels post trafficking help or face fines, and warn abuse survivors before their voter privacy lapses The Old Pink’s arsonist gets five years. The Allen Street lots the fires left behind are still waiting on a plan Feds sue the successor of a Niagara Falls manufacturer over radioactive waste under two Lewiston homes The Swannie House, closed two years, is headed for a $300,000 rehab under new owners Brookings says hospital cybersecurity needs mandates and money together. New York already tried that mix Ryan’s arts task force wants a city culture department and an end to grants with “no transparent, equitable process” In Stefanik’s open seat, Constantino’s $17 million in loans meets Gendebien’s $7 million from donors Albany Democrats send $196,000 to defend McMahon as public matching money fuels McGuire’s Amherst challenge Four years after it was announced, Tonawanda’s fix for Young Street bridge strikes gets final approval Depew opens a new St. James Street Park playground, built mostly with a $150,000 county block grant West Seneca’s Boys & Girls Club finds a home in the Winchester building, aiming for a fall 2027 opening Wolf Blitzer, the Kenmore kid with the silver beard, brings his Situation Room cool home to Buffalo Western New York’s four Division I men’s basketball teams open Monday picked near the bottom Pentagon presses Congress to write the ‘Department of War’ name into law in the final defense bill UB-trained planner Brian Smith wants to turn North Tonawanda’s empty DeGraff hospital tower into senior housing Chautauqua IDA is hiring engineers to see if 500 lakeshore acres at Eagle Bay can become an industrial park Opportunity Zone nominations close today, and New York hasn’t said which neighborhoods made its list Tribes tell the Supreme Court prediction markets are ‘today’s prospectors’ as Kalshi’s legal fight widens Buffalo wins a new $4 million federal lead grant; the White House budget asks Congress to shrink the national program Nearly half of Parks Canada staff in N.W.T. and Yukon told jobs at risk White House touts refinery funding and diesel relief, says New York hasn’t adopted fuel waivers Justice Department asks Washington state to set aside ballots of about 400 registrants it says are noncitizens Appeals court says 1929 census descendants belong in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe North Tonawanda voters to decide on an $18 million community center at the Keller Building Dunkirk is Western New York’s only city in fiscal stress, and the state can’t score 21 other local governments USDA proposes chip cards for every SNAP account, but states would cover the switch Hell’s Kitchen leads a crowded theater week downtown as Shea’s builds its next century Israelis vote in a close race that will decide whether Netanyahu keeps power Niagara County’s sewer moratoriums need a repair plan and a hard end date, not open-ended renewals A Buffalo psychiatric-campus land bill waits on Hochul as she pitches state hospital land for housing State innovation summit brings $430,000 startup competition and quantum talk to Buffalo Reason makes a case for a Jones Act economic-need waiver, and Buffalo’s lakers deserve a say in the details Lori Lococo unseats Jim Diodati to become Niagara Falls’ first woman mayor Tribal nations push back on Senate permitting deal that would rewrite Section 106 consultation Legacy Development asks the Common Council to overrule preservationists on a 150-year-old North Oak Street building Niagara Falls council holds off on delaying DeVeaux student-rental ban until Main Street housing breaks ground Halton-Pope moves to write Buffalo’s limits on ICE cooperation into city law Nietzsche’s, the Allen Street stage that launched Ani DiFranco, is up for city landmark status Joe Morelle’s House record: bipartisan election bills, median attendance and mostly party-line votes Flock cameras, crime and party-funded TV ads shape the 143rd Assembly race between Chludzinski and Taughrin Wheatfield’s 2027 budget heads to a Nov. 2 hearing with a $13.77 tax increase for a typical home Current Breaking