The Buffalo News

01/09/2026

Mel Palano, who won 544 basketball games and transformed a small gym at Bishop Timon High School into a cathedral of discipline, has died at 100, the school announced.

01/09/2026

Buffalo Bills cornerback Tre'Davious White was given the Kent Hull Stand Up Guy award, an annual honor given to the Bills player who best demonstrates collaboration, professionalism and respect with the media.

01/09/2026

The Buffalo Niagara Partnership is calling for a 10-year delay in the implementation of the state's climate law.

01/09/2026

The Buffalo Bills placed Hamlin on injured reserve Oct. 11, and they opened his 21-day window earlier this week. Hamlin has been a limited participant at practice since, but he’s enjoying every moment.

01/09/2026

Heading into Thursday's game in Madison Square Garden against the New York Rangers, the Sabres are 17-7-3 when Benson is in the lineup. They're only 5-8-1 when he's not.

01/08/2026

Buffalo Bills kicker Matt Prater (right quad) was a full participant after he did not participate in Wednesday’s walkthrough. Linebacker Matt Milano (illness) returned to practice on Thursday after missing one day.

01/08/2026

Buffalo native Tom Barney will take over as president of Delaware North’s sportservice, the Buffalo-headquartered company’s longstanding sports hospitality and retail division, with operations spanning 50 locations and all major professional sports leagues.

01/08/2026

House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders

The House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

01/08/2026

An audit by the Erie County Comptroller has found that the African American Cultural Center has been overpaid more than $352,000 in county grants from 2020 to 2022.

And so far, efforts to get that money back or find out what happened have failed.

01/08/2026

Tomorrow's Adam Zyglis:

An innocent mother of three children was shot to death by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

01/08/2026

The federal Department of Labor investigation found Amherst owed 20 town public safety dispatchers nearly $13,000 in overtime pay over two years based on a miscalculation of their work hours.

01/08/2026

Michael C. Burham, 37, who previously kidnapped an elderly couple and escaped from a Pennsylvania jail, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the 2023 fatal shooting of Kayla Hodgkin, Chautauqua County prosecutors said.