Jay Tokasz

A long shot bid to keep open the doors of a Catholic church in North Tonawanda received a boost after a Vatican office recently revoked Bishop Michael W.

The former presiding priest at the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, a Buffalo congregation that hosts the annual Greek Festival, has

A 19-hour-long negotiating session concluded Friday with a tentative new contract between Catholic Health and about 400 workers at Mount St.

Willis Carrier, who invented air conditioning, grew up in the Town of Evans, about a mile from Lake Erie, one of the world's largest natural air coolers.

It is one of the great ironies of American ingenuity that the man credited with inventing modern air conditioning hailed from Western New York, a region of the country famous for cold and snow.

Jay Tokasz has been with The Buffalo News since 2002. He is currently a staff reporter on the watchdog team and can be reached at [email protected]

The impetus for the sale of the Christian Science church in Amherst began about two years ago when a member spoke aloud what other members had been thinking privately.

The Buffalo Diocese will move to resolve its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case by having all parishes file for bankruptcy, as well, through a process known

C.J. Wild knows as well as anybody that the Catholic priesthood he is set to join isn't quite the same as when he was growing up in Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Lancaster.

Bishop Michael W. Fisher said the clean audit reflected the diligent and comprehensive work of diocese staff dedicated to implementing child-protection policies.