Category: Western NY

Both of the homes of Buffalo’s sports franchises are doing some renovations. The Buffalo Sabres announced Monday that some of the upgrades needed at the KeyBank Center are being planned before the start of next season, and ownership will foot the bill for them. Among the improvements will be a state-of-the-art videoboard and new roof…

Before we get to our borderline wild weather ride ahead this week, let’s look at how we’ve done so far in February. Overall, it’s been a mild month locally and across much of the nation, as posted by University of Alaska climatologist Brian Brettschneider.  Locally, as I first reported in The Buffalo News back on…

Tops Markets is giving away free cupcakes to those with leap year birthdays from Thursday to Saturday. Customers who bring identification showing they were born on Feb. 29 will receive four free cupcakes from the Tops bakery. “One for your birthday this year – and one for each birthday you missed,” the company said. The…

The long-term weather forecast makes it look as though spring has arrived in Western New York almost a month early. That is, unless you disregard what is expected to come our way Wednesday into Thursday. A strong cold front is scheduled to sweep through the area Wednesday afternoon, plunging temperatures from the 60s to below…

Western New York’s largest health system made progress last year in its efforts to dig out from the lingering financial effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kaleida Health posted a $30 million operating loss on revenues of $2.3 billion in 2023, said Michael P. Hughes, the Buffalo-based health system’s senior vice president and chief administrative officer.…

There is still a long way to go, but Western New York’s second-largest health system posted better-than-expected financial results for 2023 as the organization continues to recover from its Covid-19 pandemic response and adapts to changes in how patients prefer to receive care. Buffalo-based Catholic Health System recorded an operating loss of $42.5 million on…

Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” performed Sunday at Delaine Waring A.M.E. Church, set the tone for the hourlong, special Black History Month service attended by five surviving families of the 13 people killed or wounded on May 14, 2022, by a white supremacist at a Tops supermarket on Buffalo’s East Side. “It’s been…

How to transform the neighborhoods of Buffalo’s Black East Side will be the focus of a symposium Monday evening at the University at Buffalo.  The public is invited to “How We Change the Black East Side” to learn about and discuss the East Side Neighborhood Transformation Project. The project is a new approach to community…

A supermarket in North Tonawanda sold one of the three top prize-winning tickets in Saturday evening’s Take 5 drawing, New York Lottery officials announced. The ticket, worth $11,979.50, was purchased in the Tops Markets at 301 Meadow Drive and matched all five winning numbers: 1, 7, 11, 26 and 39. The other top-prize winners were…

Arts and cultural organizations in Western New York pumped $381.4 million into the local economy in 2022, according to a study highlighting the economic and social impact of the groups. It is not just large institutions such as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Shea’s Performing Arts that added to the economy and the fabric of…