The Nassau county executive requested public matching dollars for thousands of donations that did not meet the program's requirements.

Chinazo Cunningham, commissioner of the Office of Addiction Services and Supports. Photo: NYS Office of Addiction Services and Supports. Who will hold Buffalo accountable for spending thousands of ...

A Save the Michaels billboard on Broadway Street in Sloan. Photo: Adam Smith-Perez. Save the Michaels, a prominent addiction services provider, will lose its Erie County funding this summer following ...

Mayor Sean Ryan addresses community groups Friday. Photo via PPG. Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan announced Friday that his administration is drafting an executive order that will prohibit the Buffalo police ...

The special election to fill the 61st District state Senate seat — vacated last week by Sean Ryan before he was sworn in as Buffalo’s mayor — is coming as quickly as state law allows. Gov. Kathy ...

Laurence Rubin, chairman of the Charter Revision Commission. Photo by Joshua Thermidor. A monthslong effort to transform how Buffalo voters elect their leaders appears to be dead. For nearly a year, ...

Two local judges were relieved of their administrative duties last week, suddenly and without replacements lined up in advance, prompting much gossip in the legal community. Coincidentally, a third ...

The International Brotherhood of Trade Unions, a union based on Long Island. Photos: Sanjana Bhambhani / New York Focus; Sam Mellins / New York Focus | Illustration: Leor Stylar / New York Focus. This ...

Vicki Ross, right, a board member of the Western New York Peace Center, protests a Homeland Security job fair Tuesday at Buffalo’s Outer Harbor. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. The City of Buffalo has ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James. Image via WKBW. Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a comment from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. New York Attorney General Letitia James has ...

Albany’s leaders will hash out hundreds of policies in the next three weeks as they craft the state budget. Photos: New York state Assembly; Billion Images/Canva; Bill Badzo/Flickr; Aidin ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas ...