In multiple ways, the president is making the land of the free less free

American flags fluttered in the wind and candy flew through the air as Buffalo’s AFL-CIO Labor Day Parade and Picnic returned this year to South Buffalo on Monday, Sept. 7,

Carnival rides, fair food and more drew hundreds of attendees for the fourth and final day of the Clarence Center Volunteer Fire Company Benevolent Association's Labor Day Fair in Clarence

A 46-year-old Buffalo man became the fifth person linked to Erie County’s jails to die since 2025. He was found unresponse just past midnight on Saturday.

Jocelyn and Dan McKiernan started a family in what they hoped would be their forever home: a three-story house in Niagara Falls. But material unearthed when the family hired contractors to prepare th...

Hundreds of thousands of people, including residents as well as vacationers, were forced to evacuate or told to remain indoors.

Paraquat is banned in more than 70 countries. In an upstate town one resident calls “Parkinson’s Valley,” farmers are demanding New York follow suit.

Lauren Jefferson (formerly Jackson) had concerns about giving birth in a hospital setting. In New York State, she read, Black women are four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related

Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training.

We all know that Western New York is an amazing place – its diverse weather, beautiful resources and wonderful people. Every day, Buffalo News photographers continue to bring you an

Theresa McCall-Jenkins is a family support specialist in BPPN's home visiting program, aiming to support the well-being of families in Buffalo. It's a job McCall-Jenkins hasn't been able to retire fro...

The Perrin family of South Wales is unlikely to rebuild following a "devastating" fire that destroyed its milking barn and equipment and left more than half its dairy cows dead.

The Soup Lady at the 412 Diner, a popular lunch spot in North Tonawanda, will close in February. Proprietor Barb Gauchat says she will close at the end of her

See the pages from the archives of the Buffalo Evening News in the days following the epic

Between 200 and 300 demonstrators rallied together for a protest against the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside 250 Delaware Ave., the building that houses local ICE operatio...

A look back at 2025 through the lens of Buffalo News staff photographer Joshua Bessex.

Neonatal intensive care unit nurses Stefan Harasymiw, dressed as Santa, and Kelly Kennelly, dressed as an elf, toured the NICU wing to take Christmas photos with babies and their families

Erie County Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes sentenced Richard Fox II to two consecutive terms of 20 years to life in prison, for the murders of two women, Cassandra Watson and

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Jury deliberations will continue Wednesday in the murder trial of two teenagers charged in a shooting that killed a 3-year-old innocent bystander last year.

Last June, 3-year-old Ramone “Red” Carter was shot and killed near his home, an inadvertent victim of a shooting targeting someone else. Now, a year later, his mother remains in the house as reminders...

The sister of Ramone "Red" Carter testified Thursday that a teenager warned her and other children to "run home" before shooting broke out on Domedion Avenue in June 2024.

Ramone “Red” Carter was fatally shot at about 9:30 p.m. June 21, 2024, while riding his tricycle outside his home on Domedion Avenue, near the Buffalo-Cheektowaga border.

Data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs, but experts say energy conservation hacks won't lower bills much. Here's what to do instead.

So far this year, the state's county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024.