The former Fantasy Island amusement park on Grand Island — now known as Niagara Amusement Park and Splash World — will not open for the 2026 summer season, the park announced.

The Sabres comeback against Boston on Sunday night was a feat that hasn't happened in the NHL playoffs since 1940.

For the first time in 15 years, playoff block parties will return to downtown Buffalo for Sabres playoff games. Here’s what you need to know.

The first Stanley Cup playoff game involving the Buffalo Sabres in 15 years will be Sunday at KeyBank Center. https://www.wivb.com/sports/buffalo-sabres/sabres-playoff-opener-is-sunday-time-to-be-announced/ 

Buffalo Common Council member and Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope will replace Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes on the November ballot as a new New York State Assembly candidate, the Erie County Democratic Committee said Sunday.

After years of fighting to get Albert the Alligator back home, a Hamburg man is now hanging up his hat instead of continuing what’s been a years-long legal battle with state environmental officials to return the reptile.

A 21-year-old was shot and killed on Walden Avenue in Buffalo on Monday night, according to police.

A former Atlanta and Louisville police chief is set to become Buffalo’s first-ever female police commissioner, mayor Sean Ryan said Monday.

A West Seneca man was arrested for allegedly pulling a gun during a tip dispute at Bar-Bill Tavern in East Aurora earlier this week, according to police.

BREAKING: A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Allegany and Cattaraugus counties until 4:15 p.m. Seek shelter immediately if you are in the area. You can watch live coverage here: https://www.wivb.com/weather-news/buffalo-ny-weather-forecast-march-23-monday/ 

The man shot and killed by Buffalo police officers on March 5 had previously been found incompetent in 2015 on a misdemeanor assault charge and had “an extensive violent history, which includes two armed robberies and a first-degree rape in Virginia,” according to police records obtained by News 4.

A Tonawanda man is facing 39 counts and a maximum sentence of 930 years in prison after allegedly communicating in a sexual nature with a 13-year-old, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

In the most intense, action-filled hockey game played here in a long, long time, Josh Doan scored his second goal of the game with 4:17 left in the third period, lifting the Sabres to an 8-7 victory over the Lightning and the top spot in the Atlantic Division standings.

Michael Burham, who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail in July 2023 and led authorities on a 10-day manhunt, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Monday for the murder of a Jamestown woman in May 2023.

A missing man was found dead on Perry Street in Buffalo on Tuesday night, according to authorities. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was left at a Tim Horton's by officials. He had serious medical conditions and did not speak English.

Buffalo Public Schools on Friday released an internal investigative report after a Buffalo police detective accused the schools of covering up reported sexual assault last spring.

Gilbane Turner is offering a $100,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for explicit graffiti at the new Highmark Stadium, the company confirmed to WIVB News 4 Wednesday night.

Construction work at the new Highmark Stadium was suspended Monday after graffiti was found in both finished and unfinished areas of the stadium over the weekend. Gilbane Turner, the construction company managing the project, is launching an investigation with trading contractors and unions.

Police are investigating a shots fired incident at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue on Saturday, the Buffalo Police Department said Tuesday.

A Buffalo grandmother is speaking out after a frightening mistake involving her 7-year-old grandson in which she says he fell asleep on the bus on his way to school and was left in the bus terminal parking lot for hours.

Buffalo mayor Sean Ryan signed an executive order Monday barring city employees from assisting federal agents with civil immigration enforcement.

Multiple former University at Buffalo men’s basketball players were named in an indictment for alleged point shaving in multiple games during the 2023-24 season, according to documents unsealed in Pennsylvania on Thursday.

A Lancaster woman who previously worked as a bookkeeper for a medical practice in Amherst was sentenced on Wednesday for stealing over $1.8 million from the business, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s office.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was more definitive in saying that Buffalo will get an outdoor game at the new Highmark Stadium in the coming years.

The Bills have won a road playoff game for the first time in three decades, beating the Jacksonville Jaguars 37-24 to advance to the AFC divisional round.

Michael Burham, who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail in July 2023, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murdering a Jamestown woman in May 2023, the Chautauqua County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Erie County narcotics chief D.J. Granville will pay his restitution of over $75,000 to the county through 100 hours of vacation time and $350 per pay period.

New Year, New Mayor: Sean Ryan officially became Buffalo's 64th mayor on Thursday.

In the quiet agricultural town of Sanborn in Niagara County, a five-week Halloween event with hayrides, a corn maze and a mechanical pig race, has become the target of a years-long dispute between a family and the building department.

The man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death and killed his newborn baby in their Buffalo home in October died by apparent suicide in jail on Wednesday.

A Jamestown man faces a minimum penalty of 90 years in prison for allegedly kidnapping eight victims and sex trafficking or attempting to sex traffic them, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The Buffalo Niagara International Airport is adding two new flights starting in March, it was announced Wednesday.

A 12-year-old, three other minors and an adult were charged with assault after a victim was robbed at Canisius University Thursday night, according to Buffalo police.

The man who was convicted of two counts of murder after he killed two women almost twenty years apart and hid their bodies in Chautauqua County has been sentenced.

A drug trafficker will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2019 murder of a federal informant, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Thirty-seven undocumented immigrants were arrested earlier this month during traffic stops along the New York State Thruway, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday.

Aguacates, a popular Mexican restaurant on Elmwood Avenue, remains closed on Friday after it was allegedly raided by ICE on Thursday. ICE has not yet confirmed details related to the alleged raid.

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put 15 more miles behind her. But would Lake Erie have spared the Edmund Fitzgerald, the freighter ship that sank 50 years ago this week in Lake Superior on its way to Michigan?

Two local breweries are set to merge, after one of them recently denied concerns that it was closing.

Sean Ryan has been elected as Buffalo's next mayor, becoming the city's first new elected mayor in nearly two decades. Ryan has been in the State Senate since 2021 and has served North Buffalo, the Elmwood Village and the Upper West Side.

A man has pleaded guilty to charges related to a head-on crash that killed his sister and two others in the Town of Freedom in 2023, the Cattaraugus County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

Two teens, ages 16 and 17, were convicted Wednesday on various charges, including murder and manslaughter, connected to the killing of 3-year-old Ramone Carter on Domedian Avenue in Buffalo in June 2024.

New York State is issuing millions in emergency food assistance for families across the state as federal funding cuts impact residents’ food benefits.

The City of Jamestown said in a statement Thursday that it is "aware of serious allegations" relating to "potential misuse" of license plates surrendered at the Jamestown DMV. Multiple residents have dealt with getting bills totaling thousands of dollars after they turned their plates in.

Beloved toy retailer Toys ‘R’ Us is making its return to Western New York, albeit just for the holidays.

The Town of Tonawanda is rolling back its original plans to run its own ambulance service, after the town decided last year that it was looking to replace Twin City Ambulance due to concerns with response times.

Lawyers representing the shooter in the racist mass shooting at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue in 2022 are suing the Erie County District Attorney’s Office, alleging that the office withheld records pertaining to the shooter’s state prosecution.

A senior adviser at the State Department is accused by the Justice Department of printing out classified documents and storing more than 1,000 pages of highly sensitive government records.

A car drove into the Niagara River from the Niagara Scenic Parkway on Monday morning, police said. Several different crews have been scene. Details are still being gathered on what happened.

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