Buffalo NY

State Assemblyman Jon Rivera hosted the third annual “Party in the Park” event on Sept. 6 at Massachusetts Avenue Park. The event is run every year to provide helpful resources to the local community, with the main focus being back to school materials. Hosted every year since 2023,...

In a culture bent on metrics and mistrust, a debut novel argues for intuition as responsibility—not spectacle. When a novelist says a book was “shaped by Buffalo,” it often means geography or grit. In the case of The Invisible Eye—a paranormal conspiracy thriller by Sparrow Hall—the Buffalo imprint is stranger and...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — On this weekend’s Wake Up Wags, we met Skye, a “relaxed, chill dog” who is looking for his forever home. “He’s a sweet boy,” said Julie Starr from Buddy’s Second Chance Rescue. “Skye is about 4-5 years old. I would say he’s about 45 pounds and he’s full grown. He gets […]

Niagara Falls Police were en route to a call on Hyde Park Boulevard around 4pm on September 2nd for a possible drunk driver. While en...

EAST AURORA, N.Y. — The SPCA Serving Erie County is celebrating over 30 years of service with the return of Paws in the Park on Sep. 27. The event will be hosted at Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora, starting at 9 a.m. "Each year, funds raised through...

One of the most beautiful aspects of jazz is its ability to bring people together—not only through listening but through movement and joy. At the heart of jazz is dance, and thanks to the dedicated work of SwingBuffalo, swing dancing has seen an exciting revival in our city. Under...

Light bulbs are an everyday fixture in our lives, with most we encounter today replaced with LED bulbs, but how long can you safely run any light bulb?

Ani DiFranco treated her hometown to a beautiful Labor Day show, celebrating her new album Unprecedented Sh*t at Terminal B on August 31. Lifelong fans and all the movers and shakers of Buffalo were excited for her return to Buffalo to hear her advice on how to process and stay hopeful in dire times that she has sung...

GRAND ISLAND, NY — While it wasn't the jackpot, a third-prize Powerball ticket was sold in Western New York on Saturday. The New York Lottery says there were 20 third-prize tickets sold for the Powerball drawing on Saturday, Sep. 7. One ticket, worth $50,000, was sold at the Whitehaven Rd. Speedway in Grand Island.

City of Tonawanda police say a man is in custody after allegedly breaking into a woman's home and attacking her early Saturday morning....