The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html North Tonawanda’s Lowry school deal collapses as the owners say they’ll build 88 senior apartments themselves Aurora backs a 10-cent bottle deposit as Western New York redemption centers close Newstead gets $206,250 to make brine and cut road salt, part of a state push to keep salt out of creeks Highmark Stadium’s $11.63 hot dog is Albany’s test case. A bill would tie stadium food prices to the stores down the road Buffalo travelers scramble after the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years, as Duffy presses Congress to fund air traffic upgrades Jury acquits Cheektowaga homeowner Richard Walls in the 2024 shooting death of Rawnaq Ratin Goodyear has stopped production in Niagara Falls. The DEC says it will inspect the shutdown, but the finish date is uncertain Albany’s new Bureau of Comparable Hot Dogs sends frank sommeliers to Orchard Park to hunt for the legendary $9.69 hot dog EPA is sampling under a Niagara Falls Catholic school’s parking lots for radioactivity. Families may wait three months for results Buffalo’s Preservation Board is nominating Broadway’s old storefronts itself. The owners’ views are marked ‘unknown’ Advertise Punch Brothers bring their first all-instrumental album to UB on Sunday, after sombr fills KeyBank Center West Seneca adopts a 2027 budget with a 2.5% tax increase after a resident and a councilman press for a deeper cut First Nations leaders and protesters urge Ottawa to withdraw Bill C-39 as Carney calls it this Parliament’s most consequential economic bill Buffalo’s winter parking rules start Sunday, and Mayor Ryan says the goal is to plow, not to ticket Erie County is putting $500,000 toward clinicians for Buffalo’s Behavioral Health Team, as partners describe a co-response model Supreme Court will hear the Trump administration’s case to suspend asylum at the southern border Subscribe Lancaster is right to license short-term rentals. It should prove a ban is needed before it imposes one Reason Foundation says school aid should follow today’s students. Albany should rethink guarantees that pay for students who have left 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 Current Breaking