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A plethora of emergency mental health and food services have descended on the predominantly Black East Side neighborhood surrounding Tops in the days since the shooting.

President Joe Biden’s visit to Buffalo on Tuesday brought a mixed range of emotions from Western New Yorkers.

Local social justice organizations a hosting a community meeting under the theme of solidarity to get a handle on resolving long-standing problems in the Schiller Park neighborhood.

Most prospective and active care workers are low-income women of color balancing family commitments and multiple jobs. So unpaid training can be a barrier for them to join the field, while tuition costs can be a barrier to eventually advancing to higher-paid care positions.

After a failed sale to a for-profit provider, Weinberg Campus officials say they have no plans to find another buyer and are committed to continuing to operate the over-century-old campus as an independent nonprofit.

In a ballot count less suspenseful than recent counts for other Buffalo-area Starbucks stores, workers at the Delaware Avenue and Chippewa Street location learned they’d voted to unionize by a wide margin Thursday.

Longer life spans mean women need more money for retirement than men, yet their increased caregiving responsibilities, coupled with the gender pay gap, make it difficult for them to save as much as men.

WBFO’s Older Adults Reporter Tom Dinki spoke to New York State Office for the Aging Director Greg Olsen about the Nutrition Program for the Elderly’s long history, present amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and future funding.

The CEO of Starbucks has retired amid the ongoing union push that started in Buffalo.

Three more Buffalo-area Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, bringing the total to five in Western New York and six across the country.