Scott Scanlon

Family circumstances kept Austin Carter from working with classmates last month to build a cardboard boat for a Clarence High School competition. Instead, he leaned on hard work and genetics to build one on his own, and won the contest.

P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative announced Monday that it has expanded its mission to welcome all of those faced with such grief in Western New York as part of its expanding bereavement program, now closer to the goal of opening a grief center.

Members of the New York State Master Plan for Aging Coalition will host two town hall gatherings this week to provide information about how the state Master Plan is taking shape and get input from the public on a roadmap designed to shape healthy aging in the state for at least the next decade.

Read the offbeat tales our reporters have gathered for this week's Off Main Street column.

Shana Rowe, 39, was charged with second-degree murder. She is accused of shooting Shawneequa Pearson, 43, also of Buffalo, who police said was gunned down about 8:30 p.m. June 12 during an altercation with a group of other women.

A North Tonawanda man was arraigned Thursday, accused of stabbing a Buffalo man to death last year at an apartment building on Kenmore Avenue.

An Erie County grand jury has indicted two city teens in a Friday night shooting that left a 3-year-old dead and his 7-year-old sister wounded.

WNY Fire Alerts reported the crash occurred near 680 Lake Road in the Town of Porter, outside Youngstown, on the Niagara Scenic Parkway.

Organizers Natalie Stahlman, Arlene Bova and Corbett Seneca talk to The Buffalo News about the World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference, set to run in Niagara Falls Tuesday through Thursday.

More than 600 Indigenous people, and allies who support them, will come together in Niagara Falls this week to better understand the causes of these losses, as well as strategies to support those at risk and who grieve for lost loved ones.