Vicki Ross, right, a board member of the Western New York Peace Center, protests a Homeland Security job fair Tuesday at Buffalo’s Outer Harbor. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. The City of Buffalo has ...

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 ...

The International Brotherhood of Trade Unions, a union based on Long Island. Photos: Sanjana Bhambhani / New York Focus; Sam Mellins / New York Focus | Illustration: Leor Stylar / New York Focus. This ...

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.

Buffalo cops assigned to monitor surveillance cameras skipped shifts and falsified time sheets. None were punished.

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 ...

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

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 ...