Brian Higgins

Democrat's electoral victories Western New York will help them in their efforts to maintain control of the State Legislature.

Tuesday is New York state's second Primary Day of the 2022 election cycle, and there’s several relevant races to Western New York. Here’s what you need to know.

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.

Canada has the problem of many richer countries: people buying expensive homes and only using them part of the time because they have other homes to visit. The Trudeau government has a solution: a 1% annual tax on what is considered underused residential property.

Leaders hailed the legacy of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted on the 200th anniversary of his birth

The Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park is getting some needed funding to help presenrve one of its main attractions.

Two local congressmen, one Republican and one Democrat, have very different views about President Biden and Tuesday night's State of the Union Address.

More federal money is heading toward the cleanup of four Western New York waterways, Congressman Brian Higgins and representatives of government and public environmentalist entities announced Friday. The federal government is announcing one billion dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Law will be spent to clean and delist 22 designated “Areas of Concern” along the Great Lakes. Included on the list are the Buffalo River, Niagara River, 18 Mile Creek and Rochester Embayment.

If approved, the new districts would result in some major changes across central and northern New York. The plans would eliminate the NY-27 currently held by Chris Jacobs.

Hundreds of thousands of households in Erie and Niagara Counties may be eligible for a federally-funded program created to make online access more affordable. Congressman Brian Higgins, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Buffalo Common Councilmember Mitch Nowakowski met in one of Buffalo’s more digitally underserved neighborhoods Friday to encourage families to check whether they qualify for the FCC Affordable Connectivity Program.