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 ...

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 ...

You’re no doubt familiar with the phrase “garbage in, garbage out.” The concept can be applied to much of what you find on the Internet. Propaganda, disinformation and flat-out lies passing as news, ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated Aug. 10 with a statement from Pennrose. The heavily subsidized, $225 million development under construction on the site of the former Memorial Auditorium at ...

Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan. Photo: Joshua Thermidor. Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories based on an in-depth interview with Mayor Sean Ryan. Yesterday’s story centered on his ...

Water rationing is about to begin in Arizona, Nevada and California. The Washington Post reports the states “will be required to curb their use of the water from the Colorado River by a combined 20 ...

A “white chemical material” Daniel and Jocelyn McKiernan observed outside their Niagara Falls home after a recent rainfall. Photo: Daniel and Jocelyn McKiernan. Niagara Falls homeowners Daniel and ...

Last week I brought you the news of Amherst Town Council Member John Davis’s plans to challenge Jeremy Zellner for chair of the Erie County Democratic Committee. Since then Cheektowaga Town Supervisor ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa will be in Buffalo tomorrow to visit the city’s school district, which in the past two months has been rocked by controversies. Rosa’s visit comes among ...