WBFO Business & Economy Desk

More than a dozen prominent Western New York arts and cultural institutions will receive significant, steady revenue streams from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, which is committing a total $100 million to help sustain those agencies.

Starbucks Workers United, the group of baristas trying to make Buffalo-area locations the coffee giant’s first unionized stores in the U.S., says almost a third of workers participating in the union vote are ineligible.

Mike Desmond reports on Eastman, still doing business in Buffalo more than a century later

Farmers warn a 40-hour work week will put them out of business and are urging a state wage board to vote against it.

Two local communities will receive $10 million for downtown transformation projects through a competitive state program.

The New York State Public Service Commission on Thursday announced steps related to eight energy service companies, or ESCOs, operating in New York. Four of these ESCOs have been prohibited from doing business in New York and another two are under PSC review.

A 10-day strike at a large Southern Tier dairy facility has come to an end.

The State Labor Department’s Farm Laborers Wage Board is expected to meet again by mid-December, and ponder lowering an hours-per-week threshold. Farm owners fear that may lead many of their seasonal employees to find work with competitors in other states.

Catching up on a repair backlog, improving accessibility, capital projects, and hiring more people are some of what the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority plans to do with the more than $156 million it’s getting from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

A national focus is on the votes from employees at three area Starbucks stores who are deciding if they will become the first of the coffee company's 9,000 corporate-owned stores to unionize.