WNY News Headlines


Last Updated May 19th, 10:37 2026

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Buffalo News:

  • Alan Pergament: Janet Snyder will bid farewell to a historic career next week
  • Lance Lysowski: Rasmus Dahlin's remarkable season for Sabres ends in heartbreak
  • It's getting harder to recruit new cops everywhere. In Buffalo, officials are working on solutions
  • What to know for Tuesday's WNY budget vote, school board elections
  • Mike Harrington: Sabres' incredible journey suddenly cut off by Game 7 overtime crusher
  • ‘I don’t think anyone in this room felt like we were done yet’: Sabres' playoff run ends with Game 7 loss

    • Buffalo Business First:

    Buffalo Business First News Barfed! Something broke!

    Buffalo Rising:

  • Perro & Poni Set to Reopen @ Wilkeson Pointe for 2026 Summer Fun Season
  • Plogging Run Coincides with 2026 Buffalo Marathon (and Ruffalo Stampede & Diaper Dash)
  • Ground Broken on Middle Main Streetscape Project
  • 2026 MODA Market @ Bidwell Parkway
  • ‘O Canada’ is a Matter of Time
  • How to Take a Walk—in Buffalo, and Beyond: Black Lives Matter, “Revisited”

    • Art Voice:

  • Sony PlayStation Plus Price Hike Hits Wednesday And Here Is What To Do
  • Solar Eclipses Are Disappearing
  • Buffalo Sabres Season Ends In Game 7 Overtime
  • San Diego Shooting Kills 3 People At A Mosque And Police Are Treating It As A Hate Crime
  • Tom Kane, Voice Of Yoda In Star Wars The Clone Wars, Has Died At 64
  • The Engineer Who Said No: Dr. Jon Padfield’s Global Rise and His War on the Surveillance State

    • Jamestown Post-Journal:

  • M&T Bank Partners With Local Little Free Pantry Project
  • Warren Man Faces Prison Time In Case Involving Jamestown Teen
  • Four City Residents Charged In Pa. Drug Probe
  • ‘Huge Family Reunion’: Clymer’s Biannual Tulip Festival Honors Dutch Heritage, Celebrates America’s Birthday
  • Providing The Foundation: Bassist Recalls Why He Loves The Instrument
  • Project Problem: Mayville Refuses To Pay Lakeside Park Change Order

    • Batavia Daily News:

  • Onward and upward: GCC students graduate in 58th commencement
  • Pembroke plans to cut teaching, support positions
  • Parolee faces aggravated family offense charge in Wethersfield
  • Mobile Dairy Experience visits Elba Central School
  • Alexander, Le Roy, O–A cutting teaching positions
  • Attica cuts teachers as all Wyoming County school budgets grow

    • NY Times - NY Region:

  • Live Updates: Long Island Rail Road Strike Ends, but Disruptions Linger
  • Interest in N.Y.C. Pre-K Programs Is Flat, Despite Mamdani’s Outreach
  • Startled Horse Topples a Carriage in Central Park, Injuring Its Driver
  • The LIRR Strike Is Over. Here’s What Commuters Can Expect on Tuesday.
  • Judge Bars ICE From Making Immigration Arrests at Courts in New York
  • L.I.R.R. Strike Ends After Tens of Thousands Endure Lengthy Commutes

    • The Toronto Star:

    Toronto Star Failed! Something broke!

    Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time:

  • Rand Ave: Squabble With Your Neighbor Over Whose Road is Better, Get a Street Named After You
  • Butler Avenue: Start the Buffalo Evening News, Get a Street Named After You
  • Butler Place: the Fitch Institute and Fitch Creche – Buffalo Social Work Pioneers
  • The Great Buffalo Streets Contest of 1910-11
  • Mayor Chandler Wells and the Great Wells Street Fire: Lost History of Downtown Buffalo
  • Free Downtown History Walking Tours!

    • Investigative Post:

  • Under Trump, courts stacked against immigrants
  • Too many of our kids aren’t learning the basics
  • Buffalo landlord’s problem properties
  • “Acting time” and the $6 million settlement with firefighter’s widow
  • Trump grants polluters permission to poison
  • Pension power play in Albany

    • WGRZ:

  • In a small town in Minnesota, volleyball is a lifeline for immigrant children
  • American doctor who survived Ebola in 2014 is now advocating for help in East Africa
  • Man charged after chaotic chase in City of Dunkirk
  • US immigration backlog has more than tripled in past decade to 11.6 million pending cases
  • Which states have primary elections Tuesday?
  • What we know about the teen gunmen in deadly San Diego Islamic Center shooting

    • WIVB:

  • Sabres season ends with overtime loss in Game 7 at home against Canadiens
  • Former Erie County DA John Flynn named Tonawanda supervisor
  • Tonawanda man charged with murder of his wife
  • Near record warmth for Tuesday
  • Buffalo airport to receive $8.7M in federal funding
  • Transparency battle follows Ischua Creek fish kill

    • WKBW:

  • WHO calls Ebola outbreak in Congo ‘deeply concerning,’ no vaccine available
  • What will Trump do next after delaying new attacks on Iran?
  • Nation’s busiest commuter rail to reopen after deal ends disruptive walkout
  • Evacuations ordered as Southern California battles two major blazes
  • Big student loan changes hit July 1, but most borrowers say they're not ready
  • Trump touts a major TrumpRx expansion, adding more than 600 generic drugs

    • Reddit Buffalo:

  • New Policy: Verified News Sources
  • No AI slop
  • 📻 MeshCore May Update: We're building a free, off-grid emergency communication network in WNY!
  • Unpopular Opinion: Be done and plant grass
  • Halal guy
  • Inline skate spots for beginners

    • WBFO:

  • Montreal ends Buffalo's season in Game 7 overtime thriller
  • 'Ground Zero Speaks' seeks answers about post-5/14 investments
  • City, state officials break ground on Middle Main Streetscape Project
  • Mercy Hospital celebrates its latest stroke care award with a young and recovered survivor
  • Good-government advocates voice support for bill to reform early political exits
  • Q&A: John Flynn talks priorities, challenges as Tonawanda town supervisor appointee

    • Spectrum Buffalo:

  • Sabres' season ends after losing to Canadiens 3-2 in OT of Game 7
  • Buffalo airport to receive federal funding to 'improve traveler experience'
  • Engineering student, Afghan immigrant's treacherous journey to the U.S.
  • John Flynn sworn in as interim supervisor in Town of Tonawanda
  • Another hot day with storms tonight
  • N.Y. Republican candidates call for temporary suspension of state, federal gas tax

    • Niagara Gazette:

  • Falls woman thanks paramedics, firefighters who…
  • NT’s standout Derek Black going on one final ride
  • Cause of early Sunday morning Linwood Avenue fi…
  • Falls woman thanks paramedics, firefighters who saved her life
  • NT’s standout Derek Black going on one final ride
  • Cause of early Sunday morning Linwood Avenue fire sought

    • Olean Times Herald:

    Something broke!

    Rochester Spectrum 1:

  • Sabres' season ends after losing to Canadiens 3-2 in OT of Game 7
  • Engineering student, Afghan immigrant's treacherous journey to the U.S.
  • Contentious Brighton Town Hall renovation to move forward after split vote
  • Another hot day with storms tonight
  • N.Y. Republican candidates call for temporary suspension of state, federal gas tax
  • GOP members of N.Y. Public Campaign Finance Board chastise Democrats over Blakeman ruling

    • Visit Buffalo Niagara:

  • 2026 Cruise Schedule
  • Queen City Perks
  • Best Places to Watch the Ships Come In and Out
  • Imbibe Inside History at these Buffalo Breweries
  • Sip Your Way Through These Yemeni Cafes
  • Visit Buffalo Welcomes Hockey Fans with New Digital Guide and Southern Ontario Billboard Campaign

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    The Verge:

  • Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations
  • Nintendo keeps finding new ways to reinvent platformers
  • Microsoft launches Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 with Intel chips
  • The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a season of TV
  • Marshall brings ANC back to its smaller on-ear wireless headphones
  • These are the robot vacuum-mops I recommend for every type of home

    • CNBC Economy:

  • The AI economy is rewriting the American Dream — and blue-collar workers are poised to win
  • Kevin Warsh to be sworn in as Federal Reserve chair on Friday
  • The Fed will have to raise interest rates in July to appease 'bond vigilantes,' Yardeni says
  • Traders now see next Fed interest rate move as a hike following inflation surge
  • Inflation rate projected to hit 6% in the second quarter, top economic forecasters say
  • Bond market believes Fed behind the curve on inflation as Warsh takes over

    • Cyber Security Headlines:

    Cyber Sec Headlines Barfed! Something broke!

    Axios:

  • Teen temptations beware: MAHA-era FDA gives vapes, tanning beds a boost
  • Congress is scrambling to regulate prediction markets
  • In Musk v. Altman trial, the entire AI industry lost
  • Trump's revenge tour comes for Massie
  • "I'm allowed to": Trump's presidential profit machine bursts into the open
  • Axios Harris Poll 100: GOP embraces AI over Democrats