Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is among roughly 30 county leaders from across the country in Washington D.C. advocating ...

The bar is high for historic snowstorms in a lake-effect snowbelt city such as Buffalo, New York. On Jan. 30, 1977, 48 years ago today, parts of New York and southern Ontario were in the midst of one ...

John O'Rourk, retired from the Buffalo Police Department, at the Tifft Street ramp to Route 5 and the Skyway. During the great blizzard of 1977, O'Rourk and his partner, George Smith, helped many ...

Jan. 27—WATERTOWN — Snowtown USA officials finally got the weather they wanted to put on the annual homage to north country winters. The weeklong winter festival concluded on Sunday night with ...

But the blizzard of Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 1977, remains the storm against which all other future storms will be judged, according to an informal survey of meteorologists with the Buffalo office of the ...

The blizzard was different, the rare event when words cannot fully do it justice. It was not a storm so much as a natural assault. The most brutal winter in Buffalo history seemed to come together in ...