Gerda Klein has witnessed much pain and much triumph in her 86 years on earth, but she still gets emotional when she sees the American flag inching toward the top of a flagpole.

Plump green tomatoes. Winding vines of pull beans. Bright orange baby carrots. Fragrant
herbs. Waist-high stalks of garlic plants.

An air quality alert has been issued for Western New York.

Assemblyman Sam Hoyt hopes a new veteran’s monument at Forest Lawn will pay fitting tribute to servicemen like Buffalo’s Sgt. Frank World.

The historic-preservation world is coming to Buffalo for five days in October 2011, and Western New Yorkers will get their chance this week to attend an informational meeting about the conference.

A local nonprofit has added nearly half a million dollars to its arsenal to help combat illiteracy in Buffalo, after three area foundations pooled together resources to commit the funds.

Buffalo’s aging water system will receive some upgrades now that the city has finalized a $24 million bond sale.

Delta Airlines Flight 2625 from Boston to Minneapolis made a safe landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport Friday after the pilot reported troubles with the aircraft’s backup power unit.

This is how the following area offices and services will be affected Monday by the Fourth of July holiday.

Another 140 Seneca Nation cigarette sellers received a temporary reprieve Friday from a federal law that stops the U. S. Postal Service from making commercial deliveries of cigarettes.

Erie County has resumed taking applications for a program that helps working-poor families pay for child care, thanks to a onetime infusion of federal stimulus aid.

When Centennial Pool in LaSalle Park was closed in 2003, many swimmers assumed that crews
would fix a liner problem and reopen it the following summer.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing the Seneca Indian Nation’s casino operations and the tribe’s business dealings with employees and contractors, The Buffalo News learned this week.

Inside the Stanley M. Makowski Early Childhood Center on Jefferson Avenue, there’s plenty that brings a measure of pride to school administrators.

DUNKIRK–Three people who completed the Dunkirk Drug Treatment Court program were honored Thursday at a ceremony in City Hall. The three, whose names are withheld, completed at least one year of programming that involved intensive counseling.