The 21st Century Fund, part of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, is a giving circle. The fund's members – who pay a one-time fee to join – vote every two years on the recipient of a $100,000 grant to a nonprofit.
The budget outlines a new strategy to combat illegal cannabis stores by making it easier for local authorities to close them down amid the flawed rollout of the state's legal cannabis market.
Empasta won the 23rd annual Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition on Thursday evening at the University at Buffalo.
A new report last week from the Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors showed that the number of homes that have been put up for sale during the first three months of this year is roughly the same as in 2023.
The region is finally inching closer to recovering all of the jobs it lost during the Covid pandemic, which hit the Buffalo Niagara job market harder than most places.
The Buffalo Bills are receiving a tax break on the sale of personal seat licenses. It’s another way the state, which will provide $600 million of the $850 million in taxpayer money for the project, is helping financially support and supplement the building of a new stadium in Orchard Park, w…
The combination of higher mortgage rates, rising purchase prices and increasing rents is making Buffalo a lot more expensive as a place to live than it used to be, according to three separate studies of both homeownership and rental costs.
The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage has climbed to 7.13%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Gasoline prices are up an average of 18 cents compared to a month ago, according to data from GasBuddy.com, which tracks prices at the pump.
Prices at this gas station on Pierce Avenue in Hamburg were among the region’s highest Thursday.
An East Side gospel church on Sycamore Street is planning to construct 10 apartments for low-income seniors, using three parcels a block away on nearby Genesee Street.
The ink isn't even dry on the new housing deal reached by Gov. Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders over the weekend, but it's already being panned by both tenant advocates and landlords.
“It's not a fun place to be anymore. And that kind of breaks my heart,” said Dave Westphal, 49, of West Seneca, who's gone to games since the early 1980s and has had season tickets since 2005-06.
Community Bank is determined to become more visible in the Buffalo area, with plans to open two more branches here by the end of the year.
Trocaire College received a boost to its Jump Start programs to fast-track needed information technology workers into jobs with local employers, with a $270,000 grant from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.
Tesla is cutting 285 workers at its Buffalo factory, the electric vehicle maker said in a filing with state officials Wednesday. The job cuts amount to 14% of its Buffalo workforce.
"I think there’s been a renaissance in downtowns, and people believe in their communities’ ability to take these investments and make them work," New York Secretary of State Robert Rodriguez said.
Once bursting at the seams of its West Side embroidery workshop, Stitch Buffalo has opened in its spacious new home at 284 Plymouth Ave. At 4,800 square feet, the new space is three times larger than the former Niagara Street location.
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Once bursting at the seams of its West Side embroidery workshop, Stitch Buffalo has opened in its spacious new home at 284 Plymouth Ave.
While improvements are being made in the numbers, women still only comprise a little more than a quarter of the tech workforce in the U.S., even though they make up over half of the nation’s workforce. It makes events like Women in Tech WNY, which last week welcomed its largest audience in three years, even more critical.
Along with expanding training opportunities, Northland has set targets for boosting enrollment, placing more graduates in jobs and increasing the center's economic effect by 2028.
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M&T chief financial officer Daryl Bible said Monday that the bank is taking steps to shrink its commercial real estate portfolio and described M&T's exposure in big metro areas as manageable.
Demolition of the dilapidated and boarded-up Commodore Perry Homes began Monday morning in the Old First Ward neighborhood, after state officials and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority changed the start date for the work three times since Friday.
The electric vehicle maker said Monday that it would cut more than 10% of its jobs across the company, without detailing where the staff reductions would take place.
A quick read of news from the past week and a look ahead at what's coming next.
M&T Bank will bring its Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab to Niagara County for the first time, offering as many as 35 businesses with diverse ownership a chance to boost their operations.
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Dr. Jill Owens, who has been the Upper Allegheny Health System's president since May 2022, plans to return to private medical practice once a new president is named.
The site is fenced in on all sides along Perry Street east of downtown Buffalo in preparation for work to begin, when crews will begin demolishing 24 derelict and vacant buildings that have been boarded up for more than 10 years.