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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."

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.

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.

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.

Hundreds will gather in Lackawanna this weekend to conclude a five-year celebration of the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Victory.

Many home security cameras picked up the image of an object falling to earth, disappearing in a flash… and some say they heard a loud boom.

In the wake of the racist mass shooting at the Jefferson Avenue Tops in Buffalo's East Side, nearly $100 million was pledged to help the victims, survivors, and community. In Part I, I'Jaz Ja'ciel breaks down the many avenues funds flowed in from.