Professor Scott McLean has been selected to serve as an evaluator on a 20 member review panel by The National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The committee will review national grant applications as part

Today, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee passed legislation that will make college even more affordable, at no new cost to taxpayers. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 , will generate almost $100 billion in savings

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers encounter marijuana stuffed in bumper of a Chevy Malibu with a street value of $280,368. On July 16, CBP officers screening vehicles coming from Mexico escorted a 19-year-old driver of a Chevy Malibu into

Today,Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) held a legislative hearing on the Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 644). This past June, Arizona Senators McCain and Kyl sent a letter

On Sunday night just before 9:00 pm, a fire was reported in the Desert Royal Mobile Home Park, 611 E. 32nd St. Arriving Yuma Fire Department personnel found a mobile home on the Southern end of the park with heavy

LOCKPORT—The Niagara County Legislature hopes to act on a two-year extension of the 8 percent sales tax next Tuesday. Assistant County Attorney R. Joseph Foltz said Tuesday the matter could be t...

Bryan Lynch reads under the shelter of an umbrella while waiting for the bus on a rainy Tuesday evening. If damp, cool weather continues, this could be the city's coldest recorded July.

NORTH TONAWANDA — The Common Council on Tuesday approved a new three-year contract with the city firefighters union that will require new members to pay a portion of their health insurance premi...

Claiming state transportation officials have struck a "nasty blow" to Buffalo's distressed East Side, the Common Council wants decision- makers to reconsider the Central Terminal as ...

The Buffalo schools reconstruction project is on a roll. After some uncertain twists and turns, the fifth and final phase of the 10-year, $1 billion project was approved this month by the State Legisl...

Unless some mystery candidate emerges in the next few days, Buffalo voters may not find a Republican candidate for mayor on the November ballot. Richard M. Gattone, the Lovejoy GOP chairman who had ci...

Buffalo News readers sent nearly 1,350 get-well cards to a 4-year-old East Aurora boy who is about to undergo major brain surgery to try to remove a tumor, a priest helping the boy and his family repo...

OLEAN — Hotel and bed-and- breakfast guests in Olean will not be paying a room tax to the city any time soon, but at least one alderman plans to find out which other cities impose occupancy taxe...

In both life and death, Amber Graf and Sarah Breslin were together. The fun-loving Clarence High School graduates were heading away from home on Clarence Center Road at about 1:40 a. m. Tuesday when G...

LOCKPORT — The first legal bills have come in for Niagara County's lawsuit against the State Power Authority, and county legislators were taken aback Tuesday. The Buffalo law firm Webster ...

WASHINGTON—Noting that about 60 percent of upstate New York residents are obese, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday proposed banning trans fats from the nation's schools. Under legislation...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. said today that it will assume responsibility for the pension plans of 70,000 Delphi Corp. workers and retirees, as the troubled auto supplier continues to restruct...

Faced with rising school budgets, many taxpayers grumble about too many administrators receiving high salaries. According to conventional wisdom, merging school districts would save money. But that ma...

Chris Collins today unleashes an advertising blitz to prod Erie County legislators into forgetting about the prevailing wage and adopting his plan to jump-start the expansion projects drawn up by coll...

LOCKPORT—A new contract with the 14 Teamsters Union members who work at the Niagara County Sewer District was approved by the County Legislature's Administration Committee Tuesday. County ...