The Buffalo News

02/21/2024

The winter parking ban is over in the Town of Tonawanda.

02/20/2024

Hamburg Town Police identified the officer who fired the shot that killed a woman inside a house on McKinley Parkway Feb. 2 as a six-year veteran of the department.

02/20/2024

The men did not know each other before the shooting, prosecutors said, but were among several people arguing when one man “pulled his handgun first almost immediately.”

02/20/2024

Samuel Merced Santiago, 30, alleged that he was attacked by three patrons of the club and shot in the thigh Dec. 3 in a lawsuit filed by Buffalo attorney Marc Shatkin of Muscato & Shatkin.

02/20/2024

Construction will start soon on a $1.5 million overhaul of the parking area in the Village of Hamburg that holds Burgerfest and other events, as well as supports retail shops and restaurants on Main and Buffalo streets.

02/20/2024

Several Western New York municipalities have kicked off the new year with a rise in vehicle thefts.

02/20/2024

Here are this week’s girls basketball rankings for large schools and small schools.

02/20/2024

So routine, repetitive and yet amusing to watch, motorists now are known to wave, honk and smile at Eva and her prime keeper, chief feeder and daily walker, Rob Ward.

02/20/2024

The waiting game for free agents Jordan Montgomery, Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell and Matt Chapman continues as agent Scott Boras waits for the market to come to him.

02/20/2024

Gabe Davis posts thank you Buffalo video ahead of free agency

02/20/2024

Most customers had not heard of mushroom coffee. “Some were afraid to try it, but once they did, there was no going back,” said Lydia Gray, owner of Little Black Heart Coffee in North Tonawanda.

02/20/2024

The New York Post said its sources told it that Soros’ stake would be about 40% of the company’s senior debt and could give him “effective control of the media giant when it emerges from bankruptcy.”

02/20/2024

Driesell lost one notable recruiting battle early in his tenure at Maryland – to St. Bonaventure.

02/20/2024

St. Joe’s beat St. Francis, 3-2, in the Monsignor Martin boys hockey semifinals to advance to Friday’s 3 p.m. final at KeyBank Center against Bishop Timon, which earned its spot in the final with a 4-2 win against Canisius.

02/20/2024

The former Bethlehem Steel property west of Route 5 in Lackawanna, once the epicenter of Buffalo Niagara’s industrial might and its subsequent decline, has undergone a revival in recent years.

02/20/2024

Peter DeJesus is president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for unionized workers in Western New York. He talked about recent bargaining and organizing, and what's ahead for unions in Western New York.

02/20/2024

A resident escaped a burning home in Amherst Tuesday morning, police said.

02/20/2024

The region's manufacturing sector is looking to build on notable gains from the past few months.

02/20/2024

The Buffalo Bills’ former All-Pro cornerback is coming off his second season-ending injury in the past three seasons.

02/20/2024

Howe is a Buffalo-area native who fondly remembers her Western New York roots, even as she's ascended to the top leadership role of one of the online sports betting companies leading the high-growth industry.

02/20/2024

To combat unlicensed business sales, a pair of bills have introduced legislation that would give local municipalities the power to shut down unlicensed operators and seize their property in the

02/20/2024

, Day 51: A pedestrian walks past the mural in the tunnel under Seneca One tower on Main Street. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)

02/20/2024

Efforts to help St. Andrew’s survive ran up against the same harsh reality that has claimed dozens of other Catholic schools over the past few decades: Families are smaller and less interested in spending money for a Catholic education.

02/20/2024

There's nothing like the wrath of a vegan feeling scorned. Just ask the owner of Avenue 29 Foods in Amherst.

02/20/2024

Capital One Financial is buying Discover Financial Services for $35 billion in a deal that brings together two of the nation’s biggest lenders and credit card issuers.

02/20/2024

02/20/2024

William Byron clinched the Daytona 500 checkered flag under caution, giving Hendrick Motorsports its first win since 2014 in the “Great American Race.”

02/20/2024

Approaching his sixth year as vice president and director of athletics at the University at Buffalo, Mark Alnutt told The Buffalo News that his focus remains on UB’s athletic department. It's not on the athletic director position at the University of Missouri.

02/20/2024

Far down the road to an astounding 13th straight season out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Sabres lost for the second time this year to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday afternoon. It was really hard to fathom what we saw because this was not a case of more of the downtown doldrums.

02/20/2024

Cariol Horne got her law, but her money remains out of reach. A judge renewed a defamation judgment against the former police officer that blocks City Hall from turning over to her the back pay she won in her 2021 court case against the city.

Cariol Horne got her law, but her money remains out of reach. A judge on renewed a defamation judgment against the former police officer that blocks City Hall from turning over to her the back pay she won in her 2021 court case against the city.