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Today Governor David A. Paterson announced the official opening of the newly restored Erie Canal Harbor to the general public.

One of Joel A. Giambra's final budgets as county executive has ended with a comfortable surplus, thanks in large part to the state's highest sales tax rate, the Canadian shoppers paying it, and higher gas ...

Nine young Erie County hikers were rescued from a rock ledge in the Zoar Valley gorge at daybreak this morning, after they were stranded there for about 10 hours by rising waters in Cattaraugus Creek.

The Akron Board of Education will hold its reorganization meeting at 7 p. m. Wednesday in the district board room at the school complex on Bloomingdale Avenue.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins, Comptroller Mark Polancarz, and other county officials saw their e-mail addresses used in e-mails forwarding a Buffalo News editorial to lawmakers in Albany.

Someone has been sending fraudulent e-mails from the county e-mail accounts of both County Executive Chris Collins and Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz.

Sgt. James T. Hackemer says he enjoys visits from his wife, Alycia, and their two young daughters, one of whom was born in April at the same hospital where he was recuperating.

The Angola Village Board resolved at a meeting Monday night to sign off on cooperation in a Southtowns community enhancement coalition.

Maybe it's the chow. You know, three squares a day. How else can you explain Anthony Temmons trying to break into the Erie County Holding Center on Wednesday afternoon? The Buffalo resident was released from ...

New York's Brownfield Cleanup Program has racked up a billon dollar bill and very little of that money has made its way to Buffalo Niagara.

The state attorney general's office Tuesday weighed in on the battle between Erie County Medical Center and Kaleida Health, complaining that an ECMC advertisement about the consolidation in The Buffalo News is ...

An Erie County lawmaker says she has the votes to approve a measure giving the Legislature the power to cancel government contracts that smack of politics.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins is suing to toss out the proposed merger "memorandum of understanding' put forth by the new joint Kaleida-ECMC joint governing board, and defending the effort Sunday, by ...

Delaware park will be filled with thousands of runners for the 28th annual J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge.

It may sound silly for a politician's daughter to say this, but handshaking has always left me a little nervous.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins has been asked to consider State Police Capt.

Incumbent state Assemblyman Michael Cole, R-Alden, defied the odds and landed the Republican nomination in a 142nd District nominating convention Wednesday night.

WWAV Rapp Collins London has appointed Jim Thomas and Chad Warner as it's new creative directors after Barney Cockerell, Nick Platt and Rik Haslam were all promoted.

Should Army reservists train in Chestnut Ridge Park on one of the summer's busiest weekends? Erie County's parks commissioner doesn't think so, and he has created some hard feelings.

“Streamlining services to the residents is where we're going to see the biggest benefits.”

The Village of North Collins is considering doing something no other village in Erie County has ever done: di sappear. via Buffalo News