The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Bills come off the bye with a safety suspended, Lamar Jackson back and a fourth-quarter problem to solve Jessica Pegula, Buffalo’s own ‘JPEG,’ takes her clean tennis look to the WTA Finals once more Buffalo should publish a plow report card after every storm Property tax relief means little unless Buffalo and Erie County say what they will stop paying for Niagara Falls sewage plant fix now costs $338 million, and the water board’s engineers call it unaffordable Albany’s $9 billion surplus cuts next year’s budget gap to $2.9 billion, two days before voters pick who spends it Haldimand Tract trial breaks until Nov. 9 as the court weighs Six Nations oral history Champagne opens budget week as Poilievre presses Carney on debt interest Buffalo picks a former police precinct in the Old First Ward for its new animal shelter Baskin runs on her record as Szymanski tries to unseat her in the 63rd Senate District Lockport Common Council votes to take down the city’s Flock license plate cameras Albany installs a deli-counter ticket machine for its $9 billion surplus, and Western New York pulls No. 4,117 Repairs finally start on the crumbling Depew Amtrak platform, but how far will they go? Aurora highway crew pickets as contract talks stall over raises and health insurance Kenmore’s old Presbyterian church has a demolition permit and a Shake Shack plan, but no start date Justice Department asks appeals court to lift order barring pressure on election officials over noncitizen ballots 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 Current Breaking