The Buffalo Bills remain on schedule to open their new stadium in 2026 and they plan to submit a bid to host the NFL draft in 2028.
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Thousands of revelers marched down Elmwood Avenue in celebration during the Buffalo Pride Parade on Sunday, June 2, 2024.
The Buffalo Diocese's plan to shutter one-third of all parishes has some St. Margaret Catholic Church parishioners bracing for the worst.
New York State taxpayers are spending $2.4 billion on services for migrants in New York City, prompting claims from some lawmakers about what the migrants are receiving.
Ten Lives Club's new addition at its main shelter in Hamburg will be called the Tyler Bass Cat Adoption Center, rescue founder Marie Edwards said in a video announcement released last week.
Buffalo Schools is slated to receive for prekindergarten among the largest sums of state money, at about $19 million, for the second consecutive year. The support will allow Buffalo to sustain progress made in recent years, said Kelly A. Baudo, a district administrator.
The purpose of the program is to bring diverse coaching candidates further along the coaching pipeline.
A Buffalo woman's lawsuit – against a retired police lieutenant, another woman who claimed her cat was stolen and Buffalo police – alleges a range of wrongdoing, including that she was subjected to an improper arrest, had her civil rights violated and suffered physical injury and emotional distress.
Ed Healy, who played the leading role in switching Visit Buffalo Niagara's primary focus from Niagara Falls to Buffalo's architectural and cultural assets, retired on May 31 after 23 years, the last 16 as vice president of marketing.
Data from the Buffalo Police Department shows a 38% dip in car thefts through May 28 of this year, when compared to the same time period in 2023.
Reporter Francesca Bond recently joined the staff of The Buffalo News to uncover and share stories from the local food and drink industry and to take a critical look at local food access.
Nathaniel Carson and Bryan Sullivan – two older men whose group comprises a growing segment of overdose drug deaths in this region – can paint the picture of desperation and loss in vivid detail.
“It’s been a whirlwind,” Savoie said. “I've just been trying to keep my head down and work wherever I go and trying to make the most of every situation.”
Planning a trip to the East Coast or Gulf Coast this summer? It could be a very active Atlantic tropical storm season.
Advocates are struggling with laws passed in several Republican-controlled states that have criminalized much of the work done by voter outreach groups.
On issues from taxes to immigration, Trump and Biden agree on essentially nothing. Yet, they embraced similar approaches on trade.
Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging
Republicans are introducing legislation and fall ballot measures, ensuring the issue will remain in voters' minds in the months ahead.
One group trying to lay the groundwork for a second Donald Trump administration is out with a new policy book that aims to articulate an "America First" national security agenda.
In Florida and across the nation, young voters could prove pivotal in the 2024 election, from the presidency to ballot amendments and down ballot races that will determine who controls Congress.
An active jet stream pattern in the western half of the country means that the first half of May will favor more tornadoes in the Great Plains.
The practice of sedating people detained by police is quietly spreading across the nation, illustrating an often-hidden way fatal police encounters end: not by gunfire but with the silent use of a medical syringe.
A top concern for local election workers throughout the country this year is their own safety. A group formed after the 2020 presidential election is traveling the country helping them prepare for what could lie ahead.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans insisted the ruling would mostly impact those seeking abortions to end unwanted pregnancies. But that hasn’t been the case.
Millions across North America witnessed the moon block out the sun during a total solar eclipse Monday.
Before the total eclipse of 2017, the last one to cover this much American territory was in 1970. And it will not happen again until 2045.
College basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy (aka KenPom) comes on the podcast to talk about his wildly popular basketball analytics website and his time as a meteorologist.
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year.
In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear.
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According to poet Allen Ginsberg, born on this date in 1926, "We're all golden sunflowers inside."
Thousands marched down Elmwood Avenue for the Buffalo Pride Parade on June 2, 2024.
St. Margaret’s and other North Buffalo parishes are bracing for closings to be announced in three months.
There were 116 runners-up who matched four numbers, winning $511 each.
Gabe Swansen hit two home runs and Nebraska beat Niagara 7-5 on Saturday in a Stillwater Regional elimination game in the NCAA baseball tournament.
Several Western New York athletes took advantage of the Section VI state qualifier meet Saturday at Alden High School to secure their spots in multiple events for the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Track and Field Championships.
Clarence's softball team scored twice in the top of the ninth inning then held on to beat host Webster Schroeder 5-3 in the Class AA Far West Regional on Saturday, securing a spot in the state semifinals against Section VIII's Kennedy on June 7.
Nolan Schubart hit two home runs, Oklahoma State scored 11 times in the first three innings and the Cowboys beat Niagara 19-7 on Friday night in the Stillwater Regional in Oklahoma.
Today, a ride on a river ferry is a distant memory almost anywhere in the United States. But not in the St. Louis region, where a number of ferries still operate.
In the sci-fi film, “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” director Adam Wingard rousts a herd of creatures and pits them against one another.
“Star Trek” icon George Takei spent three years as a child behind barbed wires, guarded by soldiers with guns, among 120,000 other Japanese Americans labeled enemies during World War II.
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