Our best story of 2025? You tell us. Our ballot listing 10 stories is posted below. They’ve been selected from about 230 stories our staff produced this year, in addition to 50 or so appearances we’ve ...

A new report from the University at Buffalo's Human Rights Center highlights the risks migrants face when local police cooperate with ICE.

Sean Ryan begins to roll out his management team. His four deputy mayors all have solid resumes, three who have served under Mark Poloncarz in county government. Mayor-elect Sean Ryan’s management ...

WKBW’s Michael Wooten reports that Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has recruited what I consider a “rogues’ gallery” of Western New York Republican operatives to help run her campaign for ...

Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino at a recent press conference. Photo via the Niagara-Gazette. The City of Niagara Falls paid a private contractor to remove trees in front of houses owned by the ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and staff have administered what experts say was shoddy medical treatment to at least a dozen detainees at its Batavia facility in the past two years, ...

Niagara Falls Police Department. Photo by James Neiss, Niagara Gazette. Claims that Niagara Falls police officers abused departmental overtime and padded their pensions. Allegations of civil service ...

Federal agents stand guard outside an ICE detention facility in Newark, N.J. Photo credit: Victor J. Blue/The New York Times/Redux This story is republished from ProPublica, a nonprofit, Pulitzer ...

Investigative Post is relaunching its event series with three programs scheduled for November and December. We took a long break as a result of the pandemic and have staged a handful of events the ...

J. Dale Shoemaker summarizes the story. The ICE detention center in Batavia is bursting at the seams. Data obtained by Investigative Post shows an average of 727 migrants have been held at the 650-bed ...