Effort to reinstitute Housing Court advisory council has been dealt a blow by the demotion of the judge championing the initiative.

The head of narcotics for the Erie County sheriff sideswiped a number of cars last spring. Did authorities cover up the incident?

The NYCLU and other orgs says ICE officials are reading and copying confidential correspondence between detainees and their ...

Russian cyber-criminals targeted Lee Enterprises, crippling the internal systems of The Buffalo News and other newspapers in the chain.

ICE routinely subjects detainees at its Batavia facility to solitary confinement, often at levels that meet the definition of ...

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 ...

OTB boss Byron Brown speaks to reporters at Batavia Downs. Photo by Garrett Looker. After years of scandal and critical audits, the governing board of the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. has ...

The horse racing industry in New York is kaput, yet the state keeps subsidizing the sport. Here’s a strange – and indefensible – subsidy. Government handouts to keep the failing horse racing industry ...

The state attorney general over the past four years has investigated 10 Buffalo police officers repeatedly accused of misconduct. The investigations found “no pattern” of misconduct by six of those ...