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Alex Simone/BTPM NPRCommunity groups are pitching their ideas to join forces with Partnership for the Public Good and its Community Agenda for 2026, looking to advance sustainability and equality in the region. -
Eva M. Doyle websiteDr. Eva M. Doyle was named Buffalo's Martin Luther King, Jr. Citizen of the Year, Friday.
NPR Top Stories
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Harbaugh joins the Giants 11 days after he was fired by the Baltimore Ravens. The Super Bowl champion is now tasked with turning around a beleaguered franchise. -
A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria has resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, said U.S. Central Command. -
Mission Artemis plans to send Americans to the moon for the first time since the Nixon administration. -
Museveni claims victory in Uganda's contested election as opposition leader Bobi Wine goes into hiding amid chaos, violence and accusations of fraud. -
We remember Ai, a highly intelligent chimpanzee who lived at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University for most of her life, except the time she escaped and walked around campus.
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Regional News
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Michael Fisher unexpectedly entered the plea after a five-day manslaughter trial in which jurors were deadlocked.
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Albany-area state lawmakers held a town hall Thursday night to answer questions about the future of a state office complex. -
It was a who’s who in New York as leaders braved snow flurries and 18-degree temperatures to see the single largest investment in the state begin. -
The North American deal is up for review this year, or the USMCA as it’s called in Washington. Trump is now calling it irrelevant, and doesn’t really care about re-negotiating the pact. -
The sudden cancellation and rapid reversal of billions in federal mental health funding within 24 hours, left providers scrambling and vulnerable New Yorkers bewildered. -
The Democrat’s address emphasized nuclear with smaller goals for new renewable energy.
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On Saturday protesters gathered in Niagara Square to condemn violence from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. military abroad, and within the U.S. correctional system. -
The investigation continues into a four-alarm fire which destroyed a shuttered schoolhouse on the grounds of a former Buffalo Catholic parish set for redevelopment. -
A court case involving 800-plus victims suing the Diocese of Buffalo for sexual abuse may be nearing an end, now that a settlement amount has been set. It’s part of the Diocese’s Chapter 11 reorganization.
Arts & Culture Beat
- Theater Talk: Anthony reads Elizabeth Ashley's memoir, has some Broadway insights, and talks of openings, including a quick run-through of this very, very busy local opening weekend
- Theater Talk: Peter Shaffer's BLACK COMEDY at Desiderio's, funny!, great food, and the only show in town, then next week theaters explode with MAMMA MIA! , PRESERVATION, SHREK, LADY DAY, and Sean Ryan (the actor, not the mayor) stars in RENT. Click through for listings through February. And Anthony has a bittersweet story about a favorite Manhattan restaurant closing and a meal with Veanne Cox.
- Theater Talk: Notable passings in 2025 and Anthony sees LIBERATION at the James Earl Jones Theatre in NYC
- Theater Talk: An extended conversation with Edesia Moreno Barata, director/choreographer for Cirque du Soleil's 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE (at Shea's through 12/28). See listings also for A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Alleyway and BLACK COMEDY at Desiderio's.
Disabilities Beat
- Disabilities Beat: Remembering advocate Natalie Barnhard-Castrogiovanni, 'a beacon of light'
- Disability advocate, Motion Project founder Natalie Barnhard-Castrogiovanni, dies
- ‘Unprecedented’: Western New York hospitals overwhelmed by influenza A outbreak
- Disabilities Beat: Navigating the ‘super flu’ in group homes, day habilitation programs