Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant does not hold back.

What do a once-opulent hotel, a late 19th century schoolhouse and 170-year-old farmhouse have in common?

Carl P. Paladino has again stirred up controversy on the campaign trail, this time telling a Watertown audience Wednesday that Gov. David A. Paterson is a “drug addict.”

Campus West, the public elementary school on the Buffalo State College campus, is seeking a new home.

Sweat off the brows of a few hundred volunteers went a long way this week in Buffalo, as members of churches from across the country gathered here to spruce up 61 area homes.

Drug abuse exacted a high toll in a Black Rock apartment early Thursday morning. Two men died of apparent drug overdoses, and their female companion nearly died.

First the new beds went in for the flowers. Then work started on the greenhouse and the ornamental garden where the gravel lot used to be.

Contract talks between Buffalo firefighters and negotiators for Mayor Byron W. Brown took a combative turn when city bargainers “stormed out” of a session, the fire union president said Thursday.

When Jason “J. J.” Kellam-Lewis’ forehand volley popped over the net, his instructor shouted: “Perfect. Good technique!”

The fifth rainiest June in Buffalo weather history just keeps getting wetter.

An exhibit on the contributions of Pope John Paul II to improving relations between Catholics and Jews, due to close Wednesday in the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 453 Porter Ave., has been held over until Aug. 8.

Erie County’s $41 million scare has been quelled, largely through semantics.

The union representing more than 100 blue-collar employees of Buffalo Public Schools turned out in force Wednesday at the Board of Education meeting to protest what members say is a disproportionate number of layoffs for its members.

Construction work will close down sections of the Kensington Expressway overnight today and Friday, the state Department of Transportation said.

Buffalo’s homegrown Cajun party band, LeeRon Zydeco&the Hot Tamales, will kick off the 13th annual Elmwood Village Summer Concert Series at 7 p. m. Tuesday on Bidwell Parkway at Elmwood Avenue. The concerts, which will continue through Aug. 10, are free.