A small number of companies in have acknowledged the use of facial recognition technology, recently banned by Erie County.

Buffalo cops assigned to monitor surveillance cameras skipped shifts and falsified time sheets. None were punished.

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 ...

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 ...

Geoff Kelly interviewed Mayor Sean Ryan at length a couple of weeks ago about his first seven months in office and we published two stories last week based on that interview, found here and here. What ...

The McKiernan family’s yard after the DEC removed excavated dirt there last week and replaced it with vinyl linings covered with topsoil. Photo: Robert Crennan / Niagara Gazette. Three of their son’s ...

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 ...

Landlord Joseph Parlato owns at least 14 residential properties in Erie County, all but one in the City of Buffalo. He has failed to pay city and county taxes and user fees on nearly all of them, to ...

These are about to be interesting times at the Buffalo News. I say this because for the first time in decades—maybe forever—the paper has gone outside to hire an editor. Margaret Sullivan, who started ...

Our first installment of Joe Friday involves contributions made to political candidates and parties by companies with a vested interest in New York State opening up the Marcellus Shale to drilling for ...

A thriving democracy requires a thriving press, and therein lies the problem. Investigative Post is the only news outlet in Western New York dedicated exclusively to producing watchdog journalism that ...

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