The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html UB enrolls its 20 paused license-plate cameras in a seminar on how to be properly socialized Hamburg votes unanimously to pause data centers for a year, and officials say nothing is proposed Rachel Martinez wins Cheektowaga’s special Town Board election as voters also back term limits An Oscar winner’s film about the Amherst McDonald’s that sheltered blizzard strangers comes to HBO Nov. 24 Schwabl’s still treats beef on weck as Buffalo’s original specialty, and its owners want it left alone Buffalo’s school board should put its final closure plan in writing and vote on it Nov. 18 Workforce Pell can pay for fast job training. New York should start certifying programs Buffalo can use Langworthy, Tenney and Kennedy head back to a House that Democrats will run Abuse survivors approve the Buffalo Diocese’s $327 million settlement plan, with court approval still to come Haldimand Tract trial resumes Monday after a Six Nations witness described language loss and displacement UB pauses its Flock camera pilot indefinitely, and hands the decision to a committee that has met twice Erie County’s 2026 count isn’t finished. The 143rd Assembly race shows what is still left to tally Haldimand Tract trial breaks until Nov. 9 as the court weighs Six Nations oral history Wheatfield’s 2027 budget heads to a Nov. 2 hearing with a $13.70 tax increase for a typical home DOE touts West Valley cleanup progress, but the study behind its biggest decision still hasn’t been released Fantasy Island is still for sale, and Grand Island is waiting to learn what comes next Erie County is right to open a 24/7 shelter. It should show the public the bill. Erie County’s helicopter deal shows how its purchasing office slipped past its own guardrails Election Day in Western New York: polls open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. after nearly 100,000 early votes in Erie County Buffalo’s school closure plan is headed for changes, with no new vote date yet West Seneca neighbors want a Thruway sound wall, but state rules leave little room for one Metro Rail’s newest station is closed while Main Street’s final rebuild runs late Wolf Blitzer, the Kenmore kid with the silver beard, brings his Situation Room cool home to Buffalo Station Twelve opens its first stores Thursday, 11 years after Amherst was promised a new Northtown Plaza State audits flag a $346,000 fire hall overrun in Lancaster, questioned meal spending in Le Roy and lapsed school door badges across WNY Herzog tells Israel’s leaders to ‘stop climbing trees’ as Arab parties line up behind Eisenkot Federal disaster loans open to Buffalo-area homeowners, renters and businesses hit by Sept. 3 floods Cheektowaga Central Middle School PTA named a National PTA School of Excellence Carney and Trump say a trade deal is back in reach, but Ottawa warns it is “not on the verge” before the midterms A vacant Swan Street corner is slated for housing. Tests found lead at 50 times the residential cleanup limit Buffalo asked in March to lead the Scajaquada makeover. The state’s timeline still puts it behind the 33 Buffalo wants its control board to borrow $20 million for emergency repairs. Its comptroller wants the math first Washington’s ‘big shift’ is landing on New York’s books, and counties still don’t know what Albany will pass down Buffalo wins a new $4 million federal lead grant; the White House budget asks Congress to shrink the national program 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 43North’s final pitch is over. The biggest return on New York’s startup bet now sits in a foundation Shootings are falling in most of New York’s hardest-hit cities. Buffalo and Niagara Falls are going the other way Ottawa’s watchdog prices the trade war: a smaller economy, bigger deficits and a budget target propped up by tariffs on U.S. goods Goodyear shuts its Niagara Falls chemical plant on the day its pollution fix was due. Who checks what it leaves behind? Western New York’s SNAP rolls fell nearly 10 percent in a year. Albany’s free school lunch promise may pay the price Buffalo’s school board blinked on closures. The district’s own filings show why the math won’t wait DHS letter called Batavia’s planned women’s unit ‘hard-sided’; a same-day ICE contract entry describes a $7.2 million ‘soft-sided tent facility’ Albany is running $9.7 billion ahead of plan. Its own books say Buffalo shouldn’t count on it lasting Erie County’s 2027 budget cuts the tax rate. Its own four-year plan warns of $70 million gaps 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. Inside the $11.6 million public bet on Niagara Power Transformer’s Cheektowaga expansion Appeals court says 1929 census descendants belong in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe Western New York won a third of MOVE-IN NY’s starter-home money. Here is where its 96 homes stand Current Breaking