On the job less than a year, Byron Brown has already secured himself a raise at the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. Brown, hired as new president and CEO last fall, won a 3 percent raise ...

Council Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope submitted a resolution this week calling for police reforms, including a civilian review board.

Experts question the efficacy of the growing gantlet of electronic surveillance monitoring the U.S.-Canadian border.

In this week's Monday Morning Read, Jim Heaney surveys the latest assaults on media and the harm it will cause Buffalo's local NPR station.

Border patrol surveillance cameras at Fort Niagara State Park. Photo by Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle. By the time four people paddled halfway across the Niagara River in an inflatable ...