Report on hit-and-run accidents involving Erie County narcotics chief D.J. Granville voted top story for 2025 by Investigative Post readers.

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This year my plate was full with Buffalo politics, as city voters were asked to elect the city’s first new mayor in 20 years. I kicked off the year, fittingly, with a three-part profile of Acting ...

The fight for independence was one part revolution, one part civil war, with brutalities on both sides. That was one takeaway. George Washington was not all that hot of a military strategist, but he ...

Nonprofit news outlets in NY are seeking grants from Albany, arguing the funding would put them on equitable footing with for ...

Prosecution of child pornography cases spiked last year in Western New York. Between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Erie County District Attorney, 80 cases were prosecuted last year. That’s almost ...

A new stadium for the Buffalo Bills would boost the Western New York economy as much as a new Target store. Which is to say, very little. While some supporting construction of a new stadium maintain ...

Buffalo ranked as the nation’s second-poorest city when Byron Brown took office in 2006. The following year, the mayor declared that his administration was working hard to “bring people into the ...

According to experts, the community benefits agreement for the new Buffalo Bills stadium lacks key provisions that are common to successful CBAs elsewhere. That’s partly by design. The CBA for the ...

Buffalo police have quietly installed license plate readers at 41 intersections in the city, two-thirds of them located in neighborhoods populated predominantly with people of color. Buffalo police, ...