The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has settled a lawsuit filed earlier this year against a Western New York real estate agent accused of racial steering, a practice that violates local and federal fair ...

Since January 1, when Ryan took office, the fire and police departments have used over $10,000 in grant money intended to battle opioid overdoses to buy snowblowers, electronics, and upgrades to a ...

A notice posted this summer outside the site of a proposed police training facility on Buffalo’s East Side. Photo by Adam Smith-Perez. An activist organization and four East Side residents have sued ...

Hydrogen producer Plug Power, in a recent SEC filing, informed shareholders its massive WNY production facility was officially dead.

Ben Hickey for ProPublica. Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against ...

Tell us what would you like discussed at our March 24 discussion on ways to improve the economic vitality of downtown's entertainment hub.

The Buffalo-based addiction services nonprofit just got hit with a big lien for unpaid bills. And another of its facilities is closing.

Prosecution of child pornography cases spiked last year in Western New York. Between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Erie County District Attorney, 80 cases were prosecuted last year. That’s almost ...

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans in 2013 for what is now Tesla’s factory in South Buffalo, he pitched it as a cornerstone of the “clean energy revolution” and a new high-tech industrial sector ...

Lansine Sidibe serves a coconut to a child in Sao Paulo, Brazil, prior to his emigration to the United States. Photo via Kathleen Maynard. Like many migrants, Lansine Sidibe came to the United States ...

Jody Kleinberg Biehl is a faculty member in the University of Buffalo English department and director of U.B.'s Journalism program.  She also ...