A closely divided Niagara Falls City Council has approved a waiver of property and school taxes for 39 properties in the downtown Main Street.1,274 Western New Yorkers have now been identified as qualified potential jurors for the federal death penalty trial of Payton Gendron. Gendron is already serving a life sentence after admitting to state charges that he carried out the racially motivated mass shooting at the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022, in which 10 Black people were killed.The Hamburg community was reeling Thursday night after it was learned that a Frontier Middle School student died, prompting a message to parents by the principal.Local and state leaders gathered on Thursday to celebrate the completion of Buffalo Harbor State Park — the Queen City’s first-ever state park.The Niagara County Healthy Moms/Healthy Babies Coalition is inviting allied health professionals to a special training event, “Using Project TEACH to Help Those Who Help,” from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Orleans/Niagara BOCES Technology and Conference Center.