The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 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 Woodhill Capital’s president admits to mail fraud as records detail a $54 million collapse A one-town ceasefire, November talks and a diesel tanker bound for New York: Inside Washington’s new approach to Moscow A state broadband grant for Buffalo’s affordable housing has grown 67% while its promised reach shrank by a third Niagara County’s sewers hit their limit, and Lewiston moves to pause bigger developments Who owns the land around Millrace Park? City records point to a Larkin-linked company First Nations and first ministers meet in Ottawa as chiefs press for a sovereign wealth fund and a share of major projects 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 Erie County picks a South Park school for a permanent Code Blue shelter and tells City Hall it doesn’t need permission USDA proposes chip cards for every SNAP account, but states would cover the switch The Old Pink’s arsonist gets five years. The Allen Street lots the fires left behind are still waiting on a plan Dunkirk is Western New York’s only city in fiscal stress, and the state can’t score 21 other local governments State audits flag a $346,000 fire hall overrun in Lancaster, questioned meal spending in Le Roy and lapsed school door badges across WNY Tribes tell the Supreme Court prediction markets are ‘today’s prospectors’ as Kalshi’s legal fight widens Haldimand trial week three: Canada and Ontario challenge Six Nations oral history Erie County early vote passes 80,000, already above the 2022 nine-day total Ontario projects a $16.9 billion deficit and delays balance to 2029-30 White House circulates fishing industry praise for America First Seafood Strategy Canada and the EU launch an ‘Alliance for the Future’ at Montréal summit Defense bill’s 65-year streak heads into the lame duck with no Senate vote Buffalo Urban League gets $5 million in state aid for Jefferson Avenue headquarters Buffalo adds snowblower tractors, contractor money and plow tracking to clear side streets Current Chautauqua IDA is hiring engineers to see if 500 lakeshore acres at Eagle Bay can become an industrial park Fox Valley Country Club’s owners say they have put $4 million into reviving the Lancaster course 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 Federal disaster loans open to Buffalo-area homeowners, renters and businesses hit by Sept. 3 floods Trump is open to a federal subway rebuild, people familiar with the discussions say; Blakeman allies tie it to the governor’s race Trump order aims to trim mortgage insurance and refinance costs as Buffalo-area prices climb West Seneca gets $1.7 million for a crossing a student flagged. Who gets the credit is now on the ballot WNY federal justice system been corrupted US Attorney Hochul’s harsh sentences cast in doubt, lives impacted WNY Justice System Hammered by Hochuls Breaking