Common Council Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope is calling for a hard fiscal control board by the Buffalo Financial Stability Authority, but Mayor Sean Ryan calls the request "irresponsible."

It’s a familiar scene in the Capitol. Lawmakers collecting backpay after passing a late budget.

New York Public News Network reporters Jimmy Vielkind and Samuel King talk about the latest developments at the State Capitol in Albany.

Dolores Bustamante's case highlights the plight of year-round farmworkers and long-term undocumented immigrants under the Trump administration.

Great Lakes cruises are a new means by which local elected leaders and tourism officials hope to attract visitors, and their money, to Buffalo and Western New York.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders also have committed to additional funding for Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Yonkers, Albany and Mt. Vernon in future years.

Erie County has passed a local law that could have a big impact for teenagers interested in hunting. The vote opts into a state program which allows big-game hunting for 12- and 13-year-olds with supervision.

Barbara Miller-Williams seeks to block previous rulings which order her to borrow $110 million for city capital projects. She says it's about fiscal responsibility.

Both the officer and the suspect remained hospitalized after both were shot Tuesday. The officer was struck six times but after surgery received a good prognosis.

The original cost of the games to Canada was pegged at just over $500 million. Now, the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the price tag will be over $1 billion.

The good news: The budget is passed. The bad news: It was due two months ago.

43North has seen some former startup competition winners go on to big things. Now it will give way to the 43North Foundation, which will work to retain local businesses.