Mackenzie Shuman

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman

The Buffalo Sewer Authority is holding four public meetings to explain more about its $1 billion Queen City Clean Waters Initiative. The first meeting is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday  at the Schiller Park Community Center. The Sewer Authority's billion-dollar plan is expected to help reduce combined sewage overflows that plague the city during wet weather.

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman

A $6.3 billion data center could be built in rural Genesee County beginning next year, despite fierce opposition from the neighboring Tonawanda Seneca Nation. Stream Data Centers, of Dallas, is set to construct the 900,000-square-foot data center – roughly the same square footage as nine Home Depot warehouse stores – on the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP site, in Genesee County.

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman

Current and proposed budget cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put Western New Yorkers at risk, according to various current and former employees at the agency, as well as those familiar with the agency. Western New York relies on NOAA science, research and data gathering for information about harmful algal bloom forecasts – which the agency no longer has the capacity to deliver – as well as improved weather modeling for lake-effect snowstorms.

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman

One of Buffalo’s largest greenway development projects was thought to be dead last fall when news broke that the Western New York Land Conservancy was abandoning the project, first proposed in 2017. But the Riverline, a $100 million project that would bring a 1.5-mile trail system to the Old First Ward, is thriving, organizers say, with construction expected to begin in late 2026. “There’s been too much work put into this to just turn off the lights,” said Jeff Lebsack.

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman

One person was injured in a Saturday morning barn fire in Cambria, according to the Niagara County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office received a 911 call at around 8:45 a.m. reporting that smoke and flames were coming from a barn near the intersection of Baer and Lower Mountain roads, the agency said in a media release. The barn was located about halfway between Niagara Falls and Lockport.