Sean Ryan begins to roll out his management team. His four deputy mayors all have solid resumes, three who have served under Mark Poloncarz in county government. Mayor-elect Sean Ryan’s management ...

When Mayor Byron Brown announced his write-in campaign inside the Statler Terrace Room last month, he was surrounded by supporters that included one of Buffalo’s most recognizable political figures.

Leah Halton-Pope at a Buffalo Common Council meeting. Buffalo Common Council Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope is keeping alive her predecessor’s call for reforms to the Buffalo Police Department, ...

Many politicians and bureaucrats drag their feet when they field a request for information from a reporter they don’t like or ...

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Wednesday called on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to “move into a higher gear” and conduct a comprehensive assessment of radioactive hotspots in Niagara ...

ICE agents arrest a man on Elmwood Avenue. Photo submitted by Diane Hinman. Immigration agents have arrested and detained 44 people in raids across Western New York so far this month. At truck stops ...

The U.S. Border Patrol is no longer just policing the border at entry points such as the Peace Bridge in Buffalo and the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. An investigation by the Associated Press has ...

Jim Heaney is editor and executive director of Investigative Post. He was an investigative reporter with The Buffalo News from 1986 to 2011 and a reporter and editor with The Orlando Sentinel from ...

Attorney Peter Reese, a relentless pot-stirrer in Western New York politics for decades, is hell-bent on preventing Erie County Democratic Chair Jeremy Zellner from becoming a state senator. On ...

You know this: Buffalo-area commuters are stuck in traffic a lot less than their counterparts in many other large cities. What you probably don’t know: Buffalonians are sitting in traffic a lot longer ...