Four of the 10 highest-paid government employees in the region are Erie County Sheriff's officers, according to a new Empire Center report.

For at least four years, Henry Wojtaszek and his fellow executives mismanaged the finances of Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. — all while the board of directors was asleep at the wheel, ...

Steven Brill of NewsGuard discusses the perils of platforms and services that pay no heed to the accuracy of what they produce.

City of Buffalo voters will find 11 proposed revisions to the city's charter on their ballot this year. Here's what each one means.

The EPA spent 3 years and $7m to clean up two properties. The allegedly responsible company already dodged a wrongful death ...

Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan. Photo: Joshua Thermidor. Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories based on an in-depth interview with Mayor Sean Ryan. Yesterday’s story centered on his ...

The Nassau county executive requested public matching dollars for thousands of donations that did not meet the program's requirements.

Companies and workers local to Western New York have so far done the majority of the work on the new Buffalo Bills stadium. A significant portion of the $1.2 billion in contracts has also gone to out ...

ICE agents arrest a man on Elmwood Avenue. Photo submitted by Diane Hinman. Immigration agents have arrested and detained 44 people in raids across Western New York so far this month. At truck stops ...

Dan Telvock is Investigate Post's environmental reporter. A native of the Finger Lakes region, he was an award-winning newspaper reporter in Virginia for 13 years, including stints at The Free ...

The Cheektowaga Town Board meets Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. Cheektowaga lawmakers on Tuesday tabled a resolution that would restrict town police from collaborating with ...

Mainstream media is in trouble. Newspapers and television stations are losing staff and audience and scaling back coverage. Democracy is suffering as a result. Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney ...