Our best story of 2025? You tell us. Our ballot listing 10 stories is posted below. They’ve been selected from about 230 stories our staff produced this year, in addition to 50 or so appearances we’ve ...

A new report from the University at Buffalo's Human Rights Center highlights the risks migrants face when local police cooperate with ICE.

Sean Ryan begins to roll out his management team. His four deputy mayors all have solid resumes, three who have served under Mark Poloncarz in county government. Mayor-elect Sean Ryan’s management ...

ICE agents arrest a man on Elmwood Avenue. Photo submitted by Diane Hinman. Immigration agents have arrested and detained 44 people in raids across Western New York so far this month. At truck stops ...

Leah Halton-Pope at a Buffalo Common Council meeting. Buffalo Common Council Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope is keeping alive her predecessor’s call for reforms to the Buffalo Police Department, ...

When Mayor Byron Brown announced his write-in campaign inside the Statler Terrace Room last month, he was surrounded by supporters that included one of Buffalo’s most recognizable political figures.

WKBW’s Michael Wooten reports that Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has recruited what I consider a “rogues’ gallery” of Western New York Republican operatives to help run her campaign for ...

Attorney Peter Reese, a relentless pot-stirrer in Western New York politics for decades, is hell-bent on preventing Erie County Democratic Chair Jeremy Zellner from becoming a state senator. On ...

The federal ICE detention center in Batavia. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. Military-style raids by U.S. immigration agents — many of them filmed and glossily produced for television and social media — ...