WBFO Business & Economy Desk

Monday's announced action resolves an earlier lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against the operation for its illegal and deceptive tactics.

For Mark Blue, the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue is both what's right and what's wrong about Buffalo's East Side.

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.

An illegal liquor plant during Prohibition on Niagara Street in Buffalo will be turned into a new, vastly larger replacement for the West Side Bazaar not far away on Grant Street.

The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced Monday that the President and CEO of New Era Cap has been arraigned in Buffalo City Court for attempting to hit another person with his vehicle.

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.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said construction of the first Lithium-Ion battery production plant in Canada will begin almost immediately, and when operations are up and running by 2024, it will provide up to 3,000 jobs.

Workers at the Starbucks store at Delaware Avenue and Chippewa Street in downtown Buffalo are holding a one-day strike, as the result of a union vote at the Starbucks on Walden Avenue near the Galleria in Cheektowaga is in dispute.

Finding a job is hard enough. For city residents applying for suburban jobs, commuting to the job can be even more of a challenge. Bus service can help, but it's not as simple as that.

The more than $518 million investment makes it the largest infrastructure investment in the family and employee-owned company's history, and the largest economic development project in the history of Cattaraugus County.