The owner of eight buildings on Professional Parkway is suing Lockport Mayor John Lombardi III and the Common Council, claiming that after a lengthy planning process identified a citywide need for housing, spot zoning was used to specifically ban housing from that business district.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers on Wednesday arrested two United States citizens who were in possession of drugs and an illegal gun at the Peace Bridge border crossing in Buffalo. Both are from Arizona.
State Senator April Baskin is planning to introduce a bill for a hotel bed tax in Cheektowaga next week. 17 hotels in the town will be impacted if the bill is signed into law.
The former operator of the Groove Lounge who pleaded guilty to a drug charge has been sentenced to probation. Michael Ray Jackson, 61, of Buffalo, was sentenced Friday in State Supreme Court.
The New York Power Authority Board of Trustees announced this week that two Niagara County projects are among its new low-cost hydropower allocations.