The latest ICE arrest data details a summer surge by agents across many upstate New York cities, none more than Buffalo.

Downtown Buffalo’s federal immigration court. Photo: J. Dale Shoemaker. This story was originally published by ProPublica. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he pushed for a ...

Eight officers cheated the city out of hours, but the police commissioner at the time declined to discipline them.

Trump's cuts to food programs will cost New York State an extra $1 billion next year. Counties will bear the brunt of the cost.

A small number of companies in have acknowledged the use of facial recognition technology, recently banned by Erie County.

The ICE detention facility in Batavia. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. The Trump administration is moving to award a no-bid contract to expand the ICE detention center in Batavia to accommodate a surge in ...

Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan’s administration started dropping bombs in the last couple weeks. At a Feb. 19 press conference, the mayor let slip he would propose a 25 percent hike in the city’s property ...

Jim Heaney is editor and executive director of Investigative Post. He was an investigative reporter with The Buffalo News from 1986 to 2011 and a reporter and editor with The Orlando Sentinel from ...

U.S. Supreme Court. Photo: CC-BY-SA-3.0/Matt H. Wade. This story was originally published by ProPublica. In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went ...

Pedestrian entrance to Rainbow Bridge Customs station. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. In a departure from past practice, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is detaining people — including families with ...

Many politicians and bureaucrats drag their feet when they field a request for information from a reporter they don’t like or are asked about something they’d rather not disclose. But they at least go ...