Byron News

The Genesee County Legislature on Monday unanimously adopted a $140.6 million budget for 2010 that maintains for the third straight year the same real property tax rate.

November 18, 2009, 12:01 AM / This is going to be the good one, the best day of the week.

November 17, 2009, 6:48 AM / Eight promotions in the Buffalo Police Department face the threat of a federal court challenge by police union officials, who claim politics and favoritism were involved in the selection process.

Erie County did a favor for all of its residents last week when it approved a $360,000 matching grant to the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy for the upkeep of one of the jewels of Western New York.

Delores Powell and her four children might have thought their new house and refurbished neighborhood, along with the excitement of a TV show and a week's stay in Disney World, was enough of a shock.

November 10, 2009, 12:05 AM / As cold fronts go, the one that arrived overnight is a pussycat.

The New York Power Authority is generating a bigger presence in western New York.

November 09, 2009, 8:39 AM / Ten volunteer fire companies in Genesee County responded to an apartment-house fire that may have started when an ember from a backyard bonfire accidentally landed in a first-floor hallway late Sunday night.

Byron, N.Y. -- No one was injured when an apartment house on West Main Street in Byron caught fire Sunday night.

A fire in Byron, Genesee County, caused $75,000 worth of damage to an apartment building last night.

When Erie County Executive Chris Collins called NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver "The Anti-Christ" last weekend, it apparently was not the first time he told that highly-criticized joke to an audience.

Byron Dakota Speed, son of Larry and Bobbie Speed of Byron, has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader's Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky.

October 28, 2009, 12:07 AM / There is rain in the forecast, mainly before noon. Temperatures will be bit cooler than the past couple of days, with a high near 55 degrees.

A Genesee County husband and wife are recovering from injuries suffered when they were attacked by a bull Monday morning.

Incident happened on Cole Road in the Town of Byron. Monday, October 26, 2009 A husband and wire were taken to Strong Hospital on Monday after they were charged by a bull in Genesee County.

Byron, N.Y. a ' Two people have been injured by a bull on Cole Road in Byron, according to Genesee County emergency dispatchers.

CAROLYN THOMPSON BUFFALO, N.Y. a ' New York lawmakers brought the nation's top housing official through some of Buffalo's most forlorn neighborhoods Friday, seeking support for a $300 million program to help cities with vast stocks of vacant housing that predate the nation's foreclosure crisis.

Two experts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are visiting Central New York waterways this week to scout out the problems posed by invasive species.

True debate died a long time ago Regarding "Talkers inciting trouble?" : Hello, where have you been? True debate has gone the way of polyester suits.

A year from now, it isn't going to matter who President Barack H. Obama picked to be the Democratic nominee for governor of New York, be it Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Caroline Kennedy or Eliot Spitzer.