The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The NFTA should tell Buffalo what the Metro Rail extension costs before it spends more planning it Inside the $11.6 million public bet on Niagara Power Transformer’s Cheektowaga expansion Every traveler flying to the U.S. must soon swear they haven’t been in Congo. Here’s how New York will watch for Ebola. New York’s senators press the Justice Department on why it stopped enforcing the under-21 handgun sales ban, citing Buffalo U.S. orders non-emergency diplomats out of Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes widen and Buffalo diesel sits near a record Carney opens a ‘strategic partnership’ with Türkiye, Canada’s latest trade bet beyond the United States For the eighth time, the Montaukett Nation’s recognition bill waits on Gov. Hochul Erie County’s 2027 budget cuts the tax rate. Its own four-year plan warns of $70 million gaps GLYS WNY and the Pride Center are buying Oxford Pennant’s Allentown building Woman shoved by Buffalo’s deputy police commissioner files notice of claim, halting Internal Affairs review Niagara Falls bets its Main Street comeback on $25 million in Niagara University student housing Four Western New York providers win state money to train health workers, one more than the program promised the region Depew rebuilds its police command from within after a turbulent stretch Sun Cuisines still makes the case for Burmese food in Williamsville, if you’re willing to wait The BPO premieres its second new work this month, a Leshnoff symphony written for the orchestra West Seneca gets $1.7 million for a crossing a student flagged. Who gets the credit is now on the ballot Tonawanda’s new supervisor breaks the tax cap and says it will save residents later. Here’s the math A Buffalo judge strikes down the body armor ban Albany passed after Tops, on the day Hochul signs new gun bills Buffalo’s snow plan boosts contractor money nearly fivefold as the city waits on new plows Hochul’s budget office warns the data center backlash, including her own pause, could cool the AI boom paying New York’s bills Ontario will buy 600 megawatts of New York power this winter, weeks after Ford threatened to cut the U.S. off With the grape crush ending, Lake Erie growers who lost their buyer are still waiting on help Erie County Republicans try again to cap the gas tax at $2. Poloncarz, who backed a cap in 2022, calls it posturing Justice Department starts notifying counties it will monitor on Election Day as New York early voting nears Canadians are driving back to the U.S., but not across the Peace Bridge, StatCan data show The Broadway Barns hosted Woodrow Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and pro hockey. City Hall says it will probably come down Albany is running $9.7 billion ahead of plan. Its own books say Buffalo shouldn’t count on it lasting Analysis: Canada tells the Haldimand court it didn’t inherit the Crown’s debts to Six Nations. In the 1920s, it paid toward one anyway Advertise Albany funds two East Side parks in one day. One is the city’s; the other belongs to a developer-backed nonprofit Hochul should stop vetoing on-time pay for the nonprofits that do New York’s work Rochester lands a $375 million rare earth plant for $3 million in state credits. Buffalo’s last deal cost more per job Akwesasne Mohawks and Tonawanda Senecas are fighting hyperscale data centers at both ends of New York Russia frees an American and agrees to talks. The Russian diesel behind the deal would cover less than a day of U.S. demand Carney and Ford put $8.7 billion behind Ontario steel and autos as the U.S. Embassy accuses Canadians of meddling in the midterms A UB medical student’s first year costs $83,000. Washington now lends $50,000. Albany hears what that means Buffalo’s school board blinked on closures. The district’s own filings show why the math won’t wait Buffalo’s animal shelter is out of room as New York’s new shelter rules near Buffalo officer charged with stalking ex-girlfriend had been investigated by Internal Affairs 13 times Niagara County wants Albany to lock in the Falls’ casino share. The Seneca Nation says the next compact may not have one NFTA board set to add $958,000 to Metro Rail extension consultant’s contract North Tonawanda’s budget asks for a 4.25% levy increase as voters weigh an $18 million community center Lackawanna’s City Hall move is done, but the bill for what it left behind keeps growing Lancaster breaks ground on a $300,000 stage at Cayuga Creek Park, months behind its first timeline Sabres fall behind early again, and the goaltending question follows them on the road Buffalo’s Finest: Christine Baranski, the Cheektowaga girl who dreamed up sophistication and took it to the West End On the day DHS told Kennedy it was building a ‘hard-sided’ unit in Batavia, ICE committed $7.2 million for a tent Buffalo Niagara added jobs again in September, but it’s the only peer region with fewer businesses than in 2020 Current Breaking