Holly Kirkpatrick

Preservation Buffalo Niagara Executive Director Bernice Radle, second from right, and Buffalo Council Member Mitch Nowakowski, third from right, address community members Tuesday June 11 2024 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

For decades, the crash of the wrecking ball and the whirr of excavators were common sounds in Buffalo's neighborhoods as thousands of vacant properties were demolished.

City of Buffalo Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams says several city departments are in violation of the city charter because they do not comply with internal audits.

In one of his last acts as Buffalo Mayor, Byron Brown issued an Executive Order establishing the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the City of Buffalo.

Buffalo Police officers are rarely reprimanded when they have done wrong on the job a new report from the New York Civil Liberties Union finds.

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia rejects the New York Civil Liberties Union’s call for civilian oversight of the Buffalo Police Department, and said that internal officer misconduct investigations have got “substantially better” in recent years thanks to training and technology.

A lawsuit alleging discriminatory traffic enforcement and ticketing practices by the Buffalo Police Department was in federal court Wednesday.

In Genesee County, almost all local seats are unopposed. In fact, of the 15 local offices on the ballot, there are just two contested seats, and there's not a single Democratic candidate in the heavily Republican county.

Democrat Sean Ryan successfully defended his seat against Republican challenger Christine Czarnik, but stays tight-lipped on a potential run for office as Buffalo Mayor.

All 150 seats in the State Assembly and 63 State Senate seats were up for election in this cycle, and Western New York saw a wide variety of results.