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courtesy Legacy.com/Ruth Whitfield will be laid to rest on Saturday, May 28. She was one of the victims of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, but she’ll be remembered by her loved ones as a devoted and caring wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. -
Andre Mackneil, 53, died in the racist attack at Tops Markets on May 14. He was at the store to buy a cake for his three-year-old son. Mackneil's brother, niece, and a friend talked about the loving father he was after President Biden's visit to Buffalo.
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Local social justice organizations a hosting a community meeting under the theme of solidarity to get a handle on resolving long-standing problems in the Schiller Park neighborhood. -
In March, an Elmwood Village resident was hit by a car on his daily walk. His doctors were surprised he survived. Two months later, he’s left without his companion and with the physical and emotional impacts of the accident. This week, Emyle Watkins explains that while these accidents are more common than you’d expect, cities can help reduce them.
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Thirteen years after the crash of Flight 3407 in Clarence in 2009, Congress passed new safety rules that included much more flying time for trainee pilots before they could sit in the cockpit of commercial airlines.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced a request for proposals for the redevelopment of the North Aud Block, the last remaining state-owned land parcel awaiting development at Buffalo's Canalside.
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The current state average for regular gasoline is $4.569 a gallon, up 20 cents from last week. In the Buffalo area, it’s $4.416 a gallon, up 12 cents from a week ago and the highest recorded average so far.
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County Clerk Michael Kearns released his Annual Report for last year, noting the Clerk’s Office processed $167 million in transactions, which is $26 million more than the previous year, while still under COVID-19 restrictions.
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Mothers of the Seneca Nation gave New York State a Mother's Day present: a protest song encapsulating what they called the Nation's contentious relationship with the state.
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The noise on Buffalo's Allen Street corridor isn't the usual sounds of daytime shopping dollars and night-time carousing. Instead, it's the sounds of construction machines and cars on gravel in the street, west from Delaware Avenue.
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More detailed plans have yet to be put in place, but local government and community leaders were celebrating Friday the $1 billion set aside in the New York State budget to redesign the Kensington Expressway. Leaders referred to it as a “transformational” investment that would reconnect a neighborhood severed by the highway for more than 60 years.
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Officials said Thursday they are now hoping to reopen the USS The Sullivans in time for Memorial Day weekend.
