Inspector General has obtained documents related to buyouts approved for OTB executives and Comptroller is mulling requests ...

By one measure, Rochester and Buffalo are among the most affordable cities in the nation for older people to age in place. Housing expenses and cost of living have a lot to do with it.

Brian Davis’s plea to federal corruption charges Tuesday comes as no surprise. Neither does the Common Council’s appointment of a bartender to fill Mickey Kearn’s vacant seat. Such is the state of the ...

When Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown prepared his first city budget, he allowed for eight employees in his office, including himself. He had a communications staff of one. Those jobs were scheduled to cost ...

Public Subsidy Board continues to operate as though Freedom of Information and Open Meetings laws don't apply to them.

Sean Riordan’s death might have been prevented if he was given proper medical care while an inmate at the Erie County Holding Center in 2022, a state oversight commission has concluded. Instead, the ...

Lawmakers learned Tuesday that $15 million earmarked for Buffalo's current budget is gone — used to plug holes in last year's ...

Companies and workers local to Western New York have so far done the majority of the work on the new Buffalo Bills stadium. A significant portion of the $1.2 billion in contracts has also gone to out ...

A coalition of good government groups has called on the state comptroller to conduct a 'top to bottom' audit of the Western ...

I don’t mean to be a press critic, but compelling stories keep coming to my attention that I want to share. One in five adults regularly get their news from social media influencers, according to a ...