Metro Bus driver Richard Lucas is a reluctant hero who is shunning the attention being heaped upon him for rescuing two families earlier this week from a burning South Park Avenue home.

A swarm of volunteers descended on a two-story house on Milton Street this morning to give a 13-year-old bed-ridden boy a home where he can get fresh air.

Daniel Derenda’s quest to become Buffalo police commissioner hit a hurdle Tuesday when a Common Council committee blocked an upcoming vote on his controversial appointment. Lawmakers faulted Mayor Byron W. Brown for refusing to release details about the search to fill the city’s top police post.

The administration of Mayor Byron W. Brown is refusing to disclose details of its efforts to hire a new police commissioner, contending that the law dictates that such personnel matters be kept private.

The question has lingered for years: Is the job of Erie County legislator — base pay $42,588 plus benefits — a full-time undertaking?

The question has lingered for years: Is the job of Erie County legislator — base pay $42,588 plus benefits — a full-time undertaking?

WASHINGTON–More than 150 African- American religious leaders from across the state, including several from Buffalo, traveled to the nation’s capital Tuesday to learn how to bring more federal money back home to help their communities.

Two months ago, a WNY Ameri-Corps program that supplies hundreds of service members to area schools and tutoring organizations was faced with a drastic drop in revenue after losing out in a competitive funding process.

The 16 Consumer’s Beverage Centers in Erie and Niagara counties are teaming with the Buffalo City Mission in a monthlong campaign to help the agency provide meals to hungry men, women and children.

An agreement was formally signed Tuesday allowing $105 million in bonds to be issued to help pay for the downtown Canal Side project.

An hour delay and an oppressively stuffy Buffalo Common Council chamber Tuesday evening heated up an already-spirited public debate over how the city should proceed on its massive Canal Side development at Buffalo’s Inner Harbor.

A million-dollar price tag on a home isn’t the hurdle it once was.

Canisius College officials hope a new $400,000 federal grant will open doors for the college’s Institute for Autism Research to purchase technology and advance institute programs forward.

A recent court order has emboldened County Attorney Cheryl A. Green as she defends Erie County officials from the Justice Department lawsuit seeking better county jails.

The Erie County Clerk’s Office processed more than 1,500 new passport applications and assisted more than 1,000 passport renewals between Wednesday and Monday in an effort to help county residents beat a$35 increase in passport fees, County Clerk Kathy Hochul reported Monday night.