Settlements for police-related lawsuits continue to be a drag on Buffalo’s finances. Recent payouts threaten to create a deficit in the city’s current fiscal year that ends June 30, according to the ...

Today’s topic: free speech. It’s under siege. The right to protest. The right to publish. The right to speak your mind. Donald Trump is leading the ...

Some union members are objecting to a move by D.J. Granville and his supporters to obtain $25,000 to pay for his defense in hit-and-run case.

ICE seized four migrants appearing in immigration court in Buffalo on Wednesday. ICE's presence in court was unusual, if not ...

As part of the states' new $254 billion budget, New York has agreed to take a smaller cut of Western OTB's annual revenue.

Illustration by Dion MBD for The Marshall Project. When New York corrections officers attack prisoners in infirmaries — as has happened dozens of times in the past 15 years — it is nurses who must ...

Pedestrian entrance to Rainbow Bridge Customs station. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. In a departure from past practice, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is detaining people — including families with ...

The Buffalo Sabres are in fourth-to-last place in the National Hockey League standings. They’re doing better than their owner. The Athletic, the sports arm of The New York Times, just released its ...

Here’s a strange – and indefensible – subsidy. Government handouts to keep the failing horse racing industry afloat in New York. “The state is using one particularly corrosive form of gambling to keep ...

Lansine Sidibe serves a coconut to a child in Sao Paulo, Brazil, prior to his emigration to the United States. Photo via Kathleen Maynard. Like many migrants, Lansine Sidibe came to the United States ...

Recent federal audits of the ICE detention facility in Batavia have documented instances of inhumane treatment of detainees by guards. The audits, conducted in 2023 and last year, found instances of ...