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Last Updated July 9th, 07:45 2026

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Buffalo News:

  • The Thursday Catch-Up: Top Buffalo News stories you may have missed
  • Stadium neighbor who has been fighting developer – and the Bills – sells home
  • Hochul seeks firm for next stage of Buffalo waterfront development
  • The Wednesday Catch-Up: Top Buffalo News stories you may have missed
  • Erie County Fair offers lower prices for tickets, cheaper options for food and rides
  • Delaware North opens its checkbook to help preserve Olmsted Parks

    • Buffalo Business First:

  • McKinley Mall outbuilding sold for $4.1 million
  • Aviation expert who built Sri Lanka's second airport takes over Buffalo operations
  • Eileen's Bakery thrives under new ownership in West Seneca
  • Hockey league eyes Niagara Falls expansion as city works on funding
  • UB's growth, momentum brought Caroline Genco back to Buffalo
  • High-end deals continue to lose steam in May

    • Buffalo Rising:

  • Fire Report: St. Matthew’s RC Church
  • Breezy Burrito Bar and The Beer Keep Say “Adios!”
  • Wrecking Buffalo: 328 N. Oak Street
  • The Pothole Bandit Offers Up A New Form of HOPE
  • Long Strange Trip: The BPO and Crazy Fingers Bring the Grateful Dead Back to Kleinhans
  • 2026 Buffalo Garden Fling

    • WNYmedia Network:

  • Fact-checking Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens in MI Democratic Senate primary debate
  • Why Music Matters w/Jeff Miers: A Conversation with John Bacon, Jr.
  • Fact-checking the first debate between Ed Markey, Seth Moulton in Massachusetts U.S. Senate contest
  • Scott Jennings brutally fact-checked while claiming Trump lowered gas prices
  • What was the United States’ first capital? The cases for New York City or Philadelphia
  • Trump Claims He Ended War in Which ’15 Million People Had Their Heads Chopped Off’

    • Bee News:

  • Reinventing Business Internet from the Ground Up and the Sky Down
  • 4 Ways Families Can Support Struggling Readers This Summer
  • How Playing A Quick Puzzle Can Improve Your Workday
  • Clearing the Air For the Next School Year
  • Clarence Hollow Farmers Market: Fire and Safety Day
  • Old Home Days is back for its 53rd year

    • Art Voice:

  • Tarik Skubal Struck Out Nine On Tuesday Night As Trade Deadline Nears
  • Owen Murphy, The Atlanta Braves Top Prospect, Gets His First MLB Call-Up
  • Shohei Ohtani Hits His 300th Career Home Run
  • Cristian Romero Wants To Leave Tottenham For Spain And Barcelona
  • Vin Diesel Says 'Fast Forever,' The Final 'Fast And Furious' Movie, Has Started Production
  • Ben Rice, Yankees Home Run Leader, Is Going To The Home Run Derby

    • Jamestown Post-Journal:

  • Lake alliance working on starry stonewort plan
  • ‘Read All About It’
  • SKF eyes role in humanoid robotics business
  • Lawmaker eyes veterans remembrance graduation requirement
  • She Is Safe Of Chautauqua County to host benefit Saturday for domestic violence victims
  • Jamestown DAR Chapter honors local students

    • Batavia Daily News:

  • Ellman challenges Tenney to series of debates
  • Corrections officers injured, inmate attempts escape at Groveland Correctional Facility
  • PHOTOS: No injuries in Texaco Town crash
  • PHOTO: Donation supports area veterans
  • UPDATE, 10:45 p.m.: Multiple fire departments responding to Alabama blaze
  • Joanne L. Schumacher

    • NY Times - NY Region:

  • Inspector of Buckling Building Cited for Missing Problems at Other Sites
  • U.S. Attorney in Manhattan Names Deputy to Oversee Transition
  • New Supports Have Made Building Stable, Mamdani Says
  • Can America’s Best Engine of Social Mobility Weather a Bad Job Market?
  • Fax and Telegram? New York’s Archaic Requirements Get an A.I. Overhaul.
  • Mamdani Promised Faster Buses. Now He Has a Road Map.

    • The Toronto Star:

  • This Toronto father is just 37 and has aggressive cancer. A breakthrough therapy is approved in Canada — but he can't access it
  • Canada sent no-one to make its case against U.S. tariffs. So I went instead. What I saw sickened me
  • Alberta's separation debate: Whose fight is it anyway?
  • Pierre Poilievre says Mark Carney backed the wrong pipeline route. Is he right?
  • Pipe dream? Experts question economic wisdom of Ford and Smith’s new energy corridor
  • Court rejects appeal of Toronto cop who stole dead man's $834,000 estate. Const. Robert Konashewych begins 7-year prison sentence

    • 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!

    • WGRZ:

  • Bonnie Tyler, who topped the charts with epic 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' has died at 75
  • 'Greys Anatomy' star Patrick Dempsey shuts down Maine Senate buzz as Democrats weigh a replacement
  • First Democrat announces run to replace Graham Platner on the ballot in Maine
  • Winning numbers for Wednesday's $434 million Powerball: July 8, 2026 lottery results
  • US launches new airstrikes on Iran and Tehran fires back at Gulf Arab states
  • Student pilot lands plane alone after flight instructor jumps to his death mid-flight

    • WIVB:

  • Cami Clune, Buffalo's anthem singer and 'Voice' semifinalist, releasing first album Friday
  • BPD Commissioner addresses concerns about department's response to holiday weekend violence
  • Marineland whales set to move to SeaWorld locations
  • Potential for strong-severe storms in spots
  • East Side of Buffalo residents react to chaotic and violent weekend
  • Family of military veteran voices concerns about conditions at Oakwood Cemetery

    • WKBW:

  • Iran launches missiles at Gulf states after new US strikes
  • ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ singer Bonnie Tyler dies in Portugal at 75
  • Buffalo leaders, residents meeting to address gun violence
  • Charlie Kirk’s family pushes for transparency during accused killer’s hearing
  • Graham Platner suspends campaign for Maine Senate seat after rape allegation
  • 28 injured after bus crashes into building in Pikesville, Maryland

    • Reddit Buffalo:

  • New Policy: Verified News Sources
  • No AI slop
  • Wienermobile is apparently in town
  • Another Buffalo Restaurant Casualty
  • Attended today's meeting of City Charter Commission. My thoughts.
  • Shea's 100 year old Wurlitzer

    • WBFO:

  • Buffalo priest on administrative leave charged with possessing child pornography
  • Girl Scouts of America releases "State of the Girl 2026"
  • Belugas to be moved from Marineland, SeaWorld announces
  • 'The fight continues and we're winning:' Buffalo raises Disability Pride Flag
  • Hochul administration launches strategic plan project for next steps along waterfront
  • State Department of Civil Services opens new computer-based testing center in Buffalo

    • Spectrum Buffalo:

  • Lawmakers press Hochul to sign nation-leading food safety reforms
  • Building clean energy in New York state this summer
  • Report says N.Y. is tied for fourth highest electricity rates in the country
  • State officials highlight budget housing investments following deadly Knights Inn fire
  • Buffalo priest on administrative leave facing child pornography charges
  • Free summer meals helping children across upstate New York

    • Niagara Gazette:

  • Niagara Falls police intensifying investigation…
  • Some Falls lawmakers have questions ahead of Ce…
  • Union members picket outside of Reworld
  • Niagara Falls police intensifying investigation of two homicides
  • Some Falls lawmakers have questions ahead of Centennial Park LDC vote
  • Union members picket outside of Reworld

    • Olean Times Herald:

  • Village of Knives Celebration returns this weekend with a big surprise
  • Cattaraugus County to close Certified Home Health Agency services
  • Angelica celebrates America’s 250th on Saturday
  • State & Union: Spiller named to Olean school Fine Arts Wall of Fame
  • Projecting the Buffalo Bills’ 53-man roster before training camp
  • Miles included in Rochester Red Wings’ 2026 Walk of Fame Class

    • Investigative Post:

  • iPost event will explore online disinformation
  • The Supreme Court’s growing “shadow docket”
  • Hochul can spend $1.5 billion with little oversight
  • The book on Doonesbury
  • Who will pay Jeremy Zellner now?
  • Sheriff hires jail guard accused of breaking law

    • Rochester Spectrum 1:

  • Very warm with a shower/storm risk today
  • Lawmakers press Hochul to sign nation-leading food safety reforms
  • Report says N.Y. is tied for fourth highest electricity rates in the country
  • Building clean energy in New York state this summer
  • State officials highlight budget housing investments following deadly Knights Inn fire
  • Free summer meals helping children across upstate New York

    • Visit Buffalo Niagara:

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    The Verge:

  • Meta is reportedly working on smart glasses that would be recording all the time
  • Get a $30 credit when you reserve Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy phones
  • Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed
  • America’s cheapest new EV is smaller than a ping-pong table and tops out at 19mph
  • Cockroaches will learn to fear my SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable
  • If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?

    • CNBC Economy:

  • China consumer price growth weakens in June while producer inflation rises to near 4-year high
  • Christine Lagarde leaves door open to early ECB exit, as she mulls French politics
  • Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era
  • U.S. job creation cools in June with payrolls growth of just 57,000; unemployment rate at 4.2%
  • Europe wants to rebalance trade with Beijing, but can't quit Chinese air conditioners
  • World Cup could boost the June jobs report by 40,000, Goldman estimates

    • Hacker News:

  • John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
  • Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
  • Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
  • My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite
  • Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75
  • Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

    • Axios:

  • What the momentum trade tells us about the stock market
  • Trump threatens trade with Spain
  • Behind the Curtain: These 3 big AI trends are colliding at the same time
  • The hidden costs of low-tax states
  • With Iran ceasefire "over," Trump shifts to battle for Hormuz
  • Graham Platner says he's "suspending" Maine Senate bid