ICE's planned expansion refers to both a "soft sided" and "hard sided" temporary facility. In other places, that's meant ...

Officer Justin Tedesco shot and killed Jose Hernandez-Rossy in May 2017. Now lawmakers are poised to settle his mother's ...

More than a third of New York's public school districts reviewed used medically inaccurate and misleading sex education curricula.

A planned housing project at the former site of Memorial Auditorium site in Buffalo relies heavily on state subsidies.

The Toronto Star reported on ambitious plans to double the number of tourists visiting Niagara Falls, Ontario, which would leave the ‘Falls on our side of the border that much further in the dust. The ...

A lead water pipe during a replacement. Photo: Amudalat Ajasa / New York Focus. This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up ...

A new study recommends New York State stop spending time and money testing for lead contamination in drinking fountains and sinks in public schools and instead focus on filtering the neurotoxin out of ...

Members of the Charter Revision Commission. Photo by Joshua Thermidor. There’s an old joke on Hollywood movie sets: Anything that gets messed up can be fixed in post-production with creative editing ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to invest $1 billion of state incentives in an effort to revitalize the region’s economy is even bolder than the “B as in billion” suggests. Bold, but potentially flawed.

New signs eliminate a “law enforcement” parking zone on South Elmwood Avenue used by ICE agents. Photo by Geoff Kelly. The City of Buffalo this month quietly took away a subsidy it granted federal ...

Charles Dobucki’s abandoned property at 42 Cottage Street. Photo: Andre Sadoff. Scofflaw landlord Charles Dobucki is again wanted for arrest, after failing to appear in Buffalo Housing Court last ...