City & Region

OCTOBER 16, 2025 — As Buffalo approaches its municipal election on November 4, 2025, the race for mayor presents voters with starkly different paths forward for a city grappling with fiscal instability, aging infrastructure, and persistent public safety concerns. Incumbent

Acting Buffalo Mayor Christopher Scanlon has made the sale of the city’s four parking garages a cornerstone of his strategy to address Buffalo’s looming budget deficit, estimated at over $50 million. The proposal, which involves creating a Buffalo Parking and

Despite Buffalo’s mildly improved economic climate and sense of civic optimism of the last decade-and-a-half, the City still faces stark challenges.  Across all indicators, the City is getting older, poorer, and sicker.  A dearth of political leadership has squandered any

The City of Buffalo’s 2025 mayoral primary election is scheduled for June 24, 2025, with the general election to follow on November 4, 2025.  The election follows the resignation of longtime Mayor Byron Brown in October 2024, who left to

Amherst Town Supervisor Brian Kulpa is planning to propose a zoning law later this month that will require ‘big-box’ retail stores and plazas larger than 50,000 square feet, like Walmart and Home Depot, to install solar panels atop their roofs.

BY E.J. McMAHON Thanks mainly to a pandemic-driven boost in its already high outflows to other states, New York has just suffered its largest single-year population loss ever—and the worst, in percentage terms, of any state in the past year—according

Governor Kathy Hochul has privately reached out to senior executives and board members of the Walt Disney Company, headquartered in Burbank, California, to extend an invitation to open a new theme park in Niagara Falls, New York. The invite comes in

The New York State Power Authority is preparing to establish a dedicated fund that will be used to finance the revival of the City of Niagara Falls, and to manage that fund the agency intends to create an in-house investment

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 33-year-old Travis J. Green of Buffalo was arraigned this morning before Buffalo City Court Judge Peter J. Savage, III on one count of Criminal Mischief in the Third Degree (Class “E”

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 28-year-old Deshawna A. Taylor of Buffalo was sentenced this morning before State Supreme Court Justice Paul B. Wojtaszek to three years of probation. On August 31, 2021, at approximately 4:00 p.m.,

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 26-year-old Brandon Williams, also known as Branden Williams, of Amherst was sentenced yesterday afternoon before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case to a determinate sentence of 7 years in prison followed

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 47-year-old Charrinda Gray of Buffalo was arraigned yesterday afternoon before State Supreme Court Justice Paul B. Wojtaszek on an indictment charging her with one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree

This week, 26-year-old Gay Gai of Buffalo has been sentenced by Erie County Court Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes to 364 days in jail. On September 28, 2020, at approximately 4:30 p.m., the defendant attacked the adult male victim on the 200

Just a few days ago a subpoena served by New York State began blocking transactions on the bank accounts of the Seneca Nation and the Seneca Gaming Corporation due to issues regarding casino revenue payments. The Seneca Nation president, Matthew

Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes is at an enormous crux of power in Albany and is the only politician in Western New York — besides Governor Kathy Hochul — with enough clout in the state budget process to alter the

March 12, 2022 — M&T Bank CEO Rene Jones is widely rumored to be considering a not-so-hostile acquisition of Rochester’s legendary Eastman Kodak Company, in a plan that would take the firm private in order to insulate it from the

(December 26, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is looking to pitch Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary on locating the discount European carrier’s North American headquarters at Long Island’s MacArthur International Airport.  The airline is ranked among the busiest in Europe and

(December 26, 2021) — In a new spin on former Mayor Rudy Guiliani‘s ‘Broken Windows‘ theory, Governor Kathy Hochul is creating a new metric for government performance: no more ‘dingy-looking’ bridges. In her first State of the State speech later