Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a study of New York's minimum- and medium-security prisons to identify those that should close following a decade-long decline in crime rates and inmate populations and the diversion of more drug offenders to treatment programs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Medicaid reform task force is sifting through more than 2,000 recommendations to improve service and cut costs in the massive program.

The Buffalo Auto Show opens to the public Wednesday morning at the Buffalo Convention Center.

A snowmobiler was hurt following an accident off Rice Road near Feddick Road Wednesday.

A Lancaster man is facing some big charges for his role in a crash that seriously injured a 71-year-old pedestrian.

19 year old Erika Hoerner died early Saturday morning, when the car she was riding in rolled over on the 33 in Buffalo.

Buffalo is first municipality in New York to prohibit the controversial natural gas extraction process.

No park closures are planned this year despite the state parks department's order to cut spending, Acting Parks Commissioner Andy Beers testified this morning at a budget hearing.

Temperatures in the teens will combine with a southwest wind at 20-25mph with gusts to 40mph to produce wind chill values below zero today.

Authorities say no one has been injured after the roof on a western New York church's gymnasium collapsed just minutes after about two dozen children left the building.

There's no doubt the Hassan trial put the spotlight on domestic violence in this community, not only on those who abuse, but those who are victims.

For more than 150 years the Bible Baptist Church stood on Main Street in Friendship without incident.

Frank Sedita praised his prosecutors in the case and said they will seek the maximum penalty of 25 years to life behind bars. The minimum sentence is 15 years to life.

Sen. Charles Schumer wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible collusion and price gouging in the road salt market.