Amherst News

Once again, someone is $250,000 richer, thanks to a second prize Mega Millions ticket that was sold here in Western New York.

Power has been restored to nearly 1,200 residents in Amherst and Buffalo after a power failure late Friday following an apparent problem in the area of Main Street and Bailey Avenue, authorities said.

NIAGARA FALLS ... A 39-year-old Buffalo man was arrested early Monday after a police chase that involved officers from a half-dozen police agencies.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency is helping put together an incentive package that would lead to renovations for the Pine Harbor Apartments on the city's lower West Side.

From road service to repair, the AAA of Western and Central New York is getting into the car care business.

The longtime site of Jimmy Mac's, a popular drinking and dining spot along Buffalo's Elmwood Strip, will come back to life this September as the Thirsty Buffalo.

A few hundred Amherst residents call their town government every year demanding relief from persistent flooding and basement backups that threaten their homes with every heavy storm.

A former Howard's Shoes store on Sheridan Drive is about to find new life as a dentist's office.

We could be in store for some more powerful, and possibly damaging, thunderstorms today.

Curtain Up Productions and Lake Plains Players seek 12 adults to audition for its production of "Noises Off" from 7:30 to 9 p. m. Monday and Tuesday.

Two national drugstore chains sold expired food, medicine and baby formula in more than 250 stores across the state, the state attorney general's office said Thursday.

The process of representative democracy in the Town of Amherst was brought to bear - through many months, numerous hearings, tons of paperwork and no small amount of hard feelings - on the proposed Town Centre ...

A group of dentists with the one-time Barzman Kasimov & Vieth practice have formed a new firm and soon will open two offices.

The public will get a sneak peak at what a road project will soon look like in Cheektowaga and Amherst.

The principal of Windermere Boulevard Elementary Childhood Center provided the Amherst School Board on Tuesday a proposal to expand the district's prekindergarten program for the 2008-09 school year.

Amherst town board members are expected to vote on rezoning the large, former Buffalo Gun Club site off Maple Road Monday, possibly paving the way for a big development including a hotel, theatre, shops, ...

Dress Barn and Maurice's shoppers in Lockport can make a fashionable statement about helping the environment.

Police in the northtowns need your help to find a pair of bold thieves targeting Radio Shack stores.

The rocketing price for corn already is hurting Americans at the grocery store and the gas pump.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday in the case of an Amherst company that is accused of running an investment fraud scam. via Buffalo News