Nonprofit news outlets in NY are seeking grants from Albany, arguing the funding would put them on equitable footing with for-profit outlets.

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 ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and staff have administered what experts say was shoddy medical treatment to at least a dozen detainees at its Batavia facility in the past two years, ...

The country has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers and more than 270,000 newspaper jobs over the past two decades, leaving 50 million people in “news deserts,” areas where people have limited or no access ...

A smuggler waits for a reporter posing as a client in a Toronto parking lot. Photo via IJB. This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the University of ...

You could have read this Sunday if you subscribed to our free newsletters, sent Sunday and Wednesday. Sign up at this link. We’re facing the prospect of a merger involving the chain owners of Channels ...

An ICE raid took place on Crescent Avenue in May. Photo submitted. Rather than targeting the “worst of the worst,” as the Trump administration claims, ICE agents in Western New York are primarily ...

The state attorney general’s office has determined another Buffalo police officer abused his authority through his use of excessive force and other misdeeds. The AG’s office reviewed 14 complaints ...