Congressman Brian Higgins, who for months has urged the US and Canadian governments to ease restrictions at their international border, is now calling on President Joseph Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to relax rules later this month, and then reopen the border early in the summer.

Local baseball fans are looking ahead to next Thursday, when tickets go on sale for Toronto Blue Jays home games at Sahlen Field. Meanwhile, the Better Business Bureau of Upstate New York is warning fans to be cautious of any ticket offers, especially before the Major League Baseball franchise begins selling them.

Despite $2.4 billion allocated to it in this year’s budget in early April, New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program is still not accepting applicants. 

As Washington, DC talks about spending vast sums of money on transportation, local mass transit supporters see that fresh cash as a way to pay for extensions of the Metro Rail into Amherst, Buffalo's East Side and the southtowns.

Greyhound Canada is permanently cutting all bus routes across the country, shutting down the intercity bus carrier's operations in Canada after nearly a century of service.

People in Ontario will have to stay at home for at least another two weeks. The province has extended the stay-at-home order until June 2.

COVID-19 and security concerns mean the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team will be conducting its summer air show at Buffalo's Outer Harbor instead of the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.