In 2019, the City of Buffalo sold 103 properties seized for nonpayment of taxes and fees. The annual auction yielded $4.3 million that year, far more than the $700,000 the former owners of those ...

One reason the city will pay $6 million to Arno's widow: officers on the scene of the blaze that killed him were working "out ...

Addressing the Niagara County Legislature, the gambling agency's former president and CEO disputed comptroller's criticism of his tenure.

The return of Henry Wojtaszek to the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. has thrown the gambling agency into turmoil, pitting the former CEO against his successor, Byron Brown. OTB insiders told ...

This story was originally published by the Investigative Journalism Bureau, which conducts collaborative research projects with academics and journalists while training student researchers and ...

A supporter of Bustamante outside 250 Delaware Ave. Wednesday. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. Dolores Bustamante Romero, a well-known advocate for upstate farm workers, was arrested by ICE Wednesday ...

After much delay, the state court system has empaneled a legally required board to monitor Buffalo’s oft-criticized Housing Court. But there’s a catch. Several, in fact. Administrative Judge Amy ...

Old Erie County Hall. Photo: J. Dale Shoemaker. Erie County legislators told a government transparency watchdog they didn’t keep calendars tracking their daily meetings and activities. So he tricked ...

Erie County Sheriff John Garcia cruised to victory at the polls last year, facing no opponents in the primary or general elections. However, he may have neglected a critical step to beginning his ...

The IDA in Genesee County loves handing out big subsidy packages. There was the $4 million per job granted to Plug Power and 68 jobs to locate at its STAMP industrial park. (The project never got off ...

Henry Wojtaszek hasn’t cast a single vote as a member of the board of directors for Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. since being returned to the public benefit corporation as Niagara County’s ...