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After years of go-go development, housing and other proposals in Amherst are now running into fierce, well-organized opposition from some neighbors.

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center is leveraging its location just off the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge in a new international nursing program, which has helped it land hard-to-find registered nurses from Canada and beyond.

KeyBank's stock plunged as much as 38% during the worst of the morning sell-off before bouncing back some to close down 27% for the day.

A national affordable housing developer that is spending $51.4 million to renovate and upgrade the Ellicott Park Townhomes in Buffalo's Willert Park neighborhood has negotiated a special 15-year property tax break from the city.

The recovery that once seemed so far off is getting tantalizingly close, Robinson says.

The idea is that more university-based research can help turn UB into a powerful force that can help grow the Buffalo Niagara economy.

The Erie County Stadium Corp. will meet Wednesday – almost four weeks after its last meeting was postponed – to vote on the latest Buffalo Bills stadium-related items, but it remains unknown whether more project paperwork or a lease will be released.

A quick read of news from the past week and a look ahead at what's coming next.

Housing advocates are warning of a significant increase in discrimination by Western New York landlords, after a local nonprofit received more than 415 reports of housing discrimination last year – the most in nearly 40 years.

The developer doesn't say what it plans to do with the sites once the buildings are gone, and a spokesman could not be reached for comment.

See who is buying and selling properties in Erie County. 

A year and a half after nonprofit People Inc. opened a pair of large affordable housing apartment buildings on Jefferson Avenue with an enormous waitlist, another developer wants to try to duplicate the success with a smaller project across the street.

ECMC, like many hospitals across Western New York, the state and the country, is struggling to get patients out of its hospital, a multilayered problem that shows just how intricately connected the health care system is and how just one issue – in just one of its parts – can cripple the whole structure.

Daniel Vicente, 33, was elected director of the United Auto Workers Region 9, which is based in Amherst.

Max Brie was a junior on the men's lacrosse team at St. Bonaventure University when he suffered an injury that would change his life. 

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is calling for Tesla to safeguard the right of its employees to form a union, amid conflict over organizing efforts at the company's South Buffalo plant.

Plans call for first-floor retail or office space, with six apartments on the smaller second floor and one on the even-smaller third floor, according to Director of Development Tom Fox. 

The former corporate headquarters of Bethlehem Steel will soon have a new owner, as Cedarland Development Group has agreed to buy the seven-story Southtowns office building for $3.9 million.

At D'Youville University, the change has been a hit with employees, who like having an extra day of free time each week. And, officials there say productivity hasn't suffered.

Could the tech industry's struggles elsewhere be an opportunity for Buffalo Niagara businesses to tap into a new pool of talent and fill tech jobs that have been hard to fill?

Since October, Greg Gelinas has been working as the director of sports development for the Buffalo Niagara Sports Commission, where he’s promoting Erie County to a variety of event organizers and helping play host to amateur and senior sporting events, sports-related conventions, trade shows and conferences.

Dr. Steven E. Lipshultz is no longer the hospital's pediatric chief-of-service, Children's Hospital President Dr. Stephen Turkovich wrote in an email late Wednesday morning to hospital staff.

From a new mixed-use community at the northwest corner of Sheridan Drive and Harris Hill Road, and two major residential-and-retail complexes on Transit Road, to a new retail plaza, car wash and Genesis car dealership, there's a lot going on in Clarence.

Advocates of the federal Raise the Wage Act say gains made by minimum wage increases have been eroded by inflation.