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Minimum-wage workers at Erie Community College – most of them students – will get a raise of 50 cents per hour beginning Monday and an additional $1 per hour raise beginning Dec. 1.... Read More

The Buffalo Preservation Board decision last week to seek a historic designation for the Bachelor Apartments building on Franklin Street may doom a $75 million project to build a new 12-story hotel ... Read More

Michael Kasprzyk’s small radiant tubing company in Holland is expanding, but the president of Inex Inc. still feels guarded about where the economy is headed this year.Kasprzyk’s... Read More

Drowned out in the excitement over the potential for engineers to temporarily shut off the water on the American side of Niagara Falls is how we got here. It’s not a postcard-perfect picture.... Read More

State parks say soonest flow will be shut off is 2019 or later. Here's what it looked like in 1969.... Read More

A 38-year-old Buffalo man was listed in fair condition Sunday at Erie County Medical Center following an overnight shooting in the 100 block of Peck Street on the city’s East Side, according ... Read More

NIAGARA FALLS – When you barely have enough food in the cupboard to feed yourself, an empty pet food bowl can seem overwhelming.But a number of people in Niagara County have found ways to... Read More

When Erie County Democratic leaders interview four candidates for district attorney on Monday, the name of one person no longer seeking the office is expected to dominate the session. That would be ... Read More

The governor’s office is launching a four-year business competition in the state’s Southern Tier with an annual $1 million top prize for companies that promise to create jobs and help ... Read More

Urban investors pour money and sweat equity into reviving Buffalo's housing stock.... Read More