Effort to reinstitute Housing Court advisory council has been dealt a blow by the demotion of the judge championing the initiative.

The head of narcotics for the Erie County sheriff sideswiped a number of cars last spring. Did authorities cover up the incident?

The NYCLU and other orgs says ICE officials are reading and copying confidential correspondence between detainees and their ...

Russian cyber-criminals targeted Lee Enterprises, crippling the internal systems of The Buffalo News and other newspapers in the chain.

ICE routinely subjects detainees at its Batavia facility to solitary confinement, often at levels that meet the definition of ...

OTB boss Byron Brown speaks to reporters at Batavia Downs. Photo by Garrett Looker. After years of scandal and critical audits, the governing board of the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. has ...

Two local judges were relieved of their administrative duties last week, suddenly and without replacements lined up in advance, prompting much gossip in the legal community. Coincidentally, a third ...

Here’s a strange – and indefensible – subsidy. Government handouts to keep the failing horse racing industry afloat in New York. “The state is using one particularly corrosive form of gambling to keep ...

The state attorney general over the past four years has investigated 10 Buffalo police officers repeatedly accused of misconduct. The investigations found “no pattern” of misconduct by six of those ...

Delivery problems – and apparently the lack of a spine – continue to plague The Buffalo News. Since the weather turned cold and snowy, home delivery has been hit and miss. I still subscribe and ...