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Buffalo man saved by stranger during blizzard loses all his fingers to frostbite
January 15, 2023 | 11:23amJoey White, 64, underwent several surgeries to treat his severe fourth-degree frostbite, but doctors couldn't save his fingers, kin said.
Bills reward local hero with Super Bowl tickets after he saved 24 people from blizzard
January 14, 2023 | 11:46amJay Withey stepped up in a big way on Christmas Eve. And the Buffalo Bills are giving him the recognition he deserves.
Tiny upstate New York town faced with NYC-like migrant influx
January 13, 2023 | 8:27pmIn this small town -- about as far as one can get from the southern border without entering Canada -- residents are bracing for an influx of migrants that could...
Where is the snow? Many regions dealing with warm, dry winter as season hits midpoint
January 8, 2023 | 3:44pmA weather pattern flow that has kept big storms from tapping into abundant moisture is partially to blame for the lack of frozen precipitation.
Letters to the Editor — Dec. 31, 2022
December 30, 2022 | 7:50pmPost readers sound off on the failure of state and local leaders to prepare for the Buffalo blizzard that killed at least 33.
Sympathetic taxidermist rescues frozen iguanas as they fall from the sky amid bomb cyclone
December 30, 2022 | 11:43amThis put the "lizard" in "blizzard."
Buffalo roads reopen as search for blizzard victims continues
December 29, 2022 | 12:21pmMayor Byron Brown announced at a press conference late Wednesday that the city’s driving ban would be lifted after midnight.
These factors combined to make NY's deadly holiday blizzard a catastrophe
December 29, 2022 | 12:01pmIt was a snowstorm that halted responses by emergency services and forced drivers to seek shelter in stores. Still, many others were recused from the grips of what has been...
Where does all the snow go as Buffalo area digs out from deadly blizzard?
December 29, 2022 | 10:59amErie County in western New York is digging out after the historic holiday blizzard that killed dozens of people and crippled the region for days.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's fatal slow-to-act error in Buffalo winter storm
December 28, 2022 | 9:41pmNew Yorkers are learning a difference between former Gov. Cuomo and Gov. Hochul: a failure to issue a travel ban before the storm hit costing 37 lives.
Blizzard death toll rises to 37 in Buffalo area as cleanup continues
December 28, 2022 | 7:48pmErie County officials confirmed an additional three people perished during the vicious blizzard that battered Western New York over the weekend, bringing the county’s total death count to 37.
Storm survivor on being trapped in Buffalo home with no heat, no help: 'It's been hell'
December 28, 2022 | 6:52pm"It's more than anyone can handle," said lifelong Buffalo resident Pheette Jackson
Exec wouldn't have 'changed anything' about Buffalo driving ban that resulted in deaths
December 28, 2022 | 4:54pmErie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted that the ill-timed driving ban affected hardest-hit Buffalo was "my decision and I bear full responsibility."
Buffalo residents stranded without food as death toll hits 35
December 28, 2022 | 4:07pmFive days after a massive blizzard devastated Buffalo, the city is still digging out from the snow as some residents were stranded without food and officials vowed to clear roads...
Freezing weather turns car wash into bomb cyclone ice cave in chilling snaps
December 28, 2022 | 3:14pmIs this where people wash their ice-calades?
Texts reveal late nurse thought emergency crews didn't 'give a f--k' during blizzard
December 28, 2022 | 11:37am"They sending a cop to me," Anndel Taylor texted her family, adding that she didn't know "how long thats gunna take."
'Lowest of the low': Buffalo cops arrest 8 suspected looters during 'blizzard of the century'
December 28, 2022 | 11:18amBuffalo Police Department's newly former Anti-Looting Detail has arrested eight people on suspicion of ransacking local businesses during last weekend's deadly blizzard.
Buffalo couple cares for stranger's body after she dies outside their home during blizzard
December 28, 2022 | 2:11amA couple in Buffalo sheltered the body of an elderly mother who collapsed and died outside of their home on Christmas during the weekend’s blizzard that left at least 33...
Adams soaked up sun in US Virgin Islands as bomb cyclone pounded NYC
December 27, 2022 | 8:03pm“I was amazed to see how you responded,” Adams scolded reporters. “This is my second Christmas without my mother and last year, I was really [in] a state of depression...
We need answers to why so many died in the Buffalo storm
December 27, 2022 | 7:49pmThe death toll from the blizzard in Buffalo keeps rising and is now at least 33 — begging the question of how a city known for its fierce winters couldn’t...