WNY communities welcome $823M in stimulus aid. Now they have to decide how to spend it

Government employees would receive millions under a county plan on how to spend American Rescue Plan money.

Lawmakers voted 7-4 along party lines for the $123.7 million plan presented three weeks ago by County Executive Mark Poloncarz, with Democrats…

Buffalo and other municipalities across the eight-county Western New York region will soon be able to start cashing in on at least $822.7 mill…

While Buffalo's windfall is smaller than the $245.1 million it was expected to get under an earlier version of the bill, it is still an unprec…

The American Rescue Plan showers money on the Empire State in myriad ways.

The holes that the pandemic blew through the region's local government budgets will soon be overflowing with federal dollars.

"People are hurting, and it addresses fundamentally where the most vulnerable are," said Rep. Brian Higgins, a Democrat.

Amherst residents will pay sharply higher property taxes in 2021, but not quite as much as originally proposed.