The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Province House reopens to the public after nearly 12 years of restoration B.C. Conservatives win majority as Eby resigns as NDP leader after snap election Radioactive slag was documented at a Town of Niagara drive-in in 2020. Neighbors are still waiting for answers In the 142nd Assembly race, Burke runs on a trooper leave law and Dickson on West Seneca’s tax record Hochul’s $36 million for crime victim programs has yet to flow as providers cut staff Four Western New York providers win state money to train health workers, one more than the program promised the region Trump weighs a deal or renewed strikes on Iran as Tehran says messages are still moving A new Quaker Road lot coverage request heads to East Aurora’s zoning board as a senior housing plan moves ahead Appeals court says 1929 census descendants belong in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe Buffalo’s school board blinked on closures. The district’s own filings show why the math won’t wait Buffalo voters should approve Proposal 8 and make City Hall prove its budget math before it spends First Nations and first ministers meet in Ottawa as chiefs press for a sovereign wealth fund and a share of major projects White House touts refinery funding and diesel relief, says New York hasn’t adopted fuel waivers FBI surge on unsolved Indian Country crimes doubles arrests, Justice Department says Erie County’s IDA has backed $143 million in projects this year, a fifth of 2025’s pace, as its board takes up a 2027 budget Backyard apartments are catching on, and Western New York’s suburbs should make room for them Who owns the land around Millrace Park? City records point to a Larkin-linked company Niagara Falls’ first North Main Street tax break: what $376,523 in incentives buys at 2109 Main Jamestown weighs $36 million in downtown requests as an EPA grant targets its industrial riverfront Elmwood Bidwell apartments start leasing, 10 months past the developer’s target Gendron jury selection enters week three as a fatal taxi crash brings an indictment A stuck sewer camera keeps the old Niagara County Infirmary in limbo on Lockport’s city-town line Lancaster and Depew close out a football rivalry that dates to 1919, and only one side wanted it to end The Feed: Cheektowaga’s camera discipline, Alberta’s vote and Trump’s gas-price remark dominate the week online Hell’s Kitchen leads a crowded theater week downtown as Shea’s builds its next century Marketside has fed Niagara Falls breakfast since 1939, and its fourth generation just made room for more Golden Dome hits early milestones as senators from both parties press for steadier funding UB alum Judge John Sinatra has a consistent answer for New York’s gun laws: show the history Boston overrides the tax cap for its 2027 budget, and town officials say water lines are the reason Claudia Tenney’s campaign has spent $2.6 million in a safe seat, and most of it went to raising more Albany adds $10 million to Buffalo’s East Side Building Fund after 300 applications chased the first round Albany’s license plate reader bill passed without a no vote, but it doesn’t reach the police cameras drawing fire in Western New York Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus gas expansion selected in record federal tribal energy round Divided 5th Circuit says detained immigrants have no right to bond hearings as Supreme Court takes up Buffalo case Federal disaster loans open to Buffalo-area homeowners, renters and businesses hit by Sept. 3 floods Albany should not hand Erie County the bill for SNAP’s error-rate penalty Navajo Nation braces for weeks of recovery after record San Juan River flooding A state broadband grant for Buffalo’s affordable housing has grown 67% while its promised reach shrank by a third Hochul sends $5.8 million to Amherst and Williamsville for the Peanut Line Trail and Island Park New York’s quantum study ranks the state second nationally, but finds Western New York’s footprint thin Rich Products cuts 60 Buffalo jobs in a global overhaul while it keeps building on Niagara Street Four charged with murder in alleged plot to kill a witness, as federal gun case and day care shutdown round out the week The case for rethinking hospital tax breaks, and why Buffalo should tread carefully A Rochester developer bets factory-built homes can fill Buffalo’s vacant lots for about $175,000 Buffalo’s long ballot: 11 charter changes, from a human rights commission to who controls the budget Lewiston slaps six-month moratorium on rain, orders clouds to file downstream capacity analysis Kennedy presses DHS on Batavia detention expansion as the administration points to Albany and the 2024 vote Clarence holds its tax rate flat for 2027, but leans on $3.2 million in savings to do it Current Breaking