Ashley Hirtzel, WBFO
@AshleyHirtzWBFO/Western New York reporter for the Innovation Trail.
Ashley is a Buffalo native, and is in her second stint as reporter at WBFO. During her first tenure at the station, Ashley covered a variety of issues in the western New York region and earned an Associated Press award for team coverage on “Same Sex Marriage in New York.” Ashley has also worked as an anchor/reporter at WBEN in Buffalo and WBTA in Batavia.
Ashley earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Communications at Medaille College in Buffalo.
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SUNY Buffalo State College officially opened its state-of-the-art Technology Building on Thursday. The facility cost $36.5 million and was paid for… -
The business lobby group Unshackle Upstate, has proposed income tax cuts for New York state residents who earn less than $50,000 a year as part of a…
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A western New York institution has been serving up southern homestyle cooking for more than 50 years. GiGi’s Soul Food remains a mainstay of Buffalo’s… -
The Environmental Protection Agency outlined its plans to clean up a heavily polluted Eighteenmile Creek at a public meeting in Lockport on Tuesday.… -
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission estimates that more than 40 million people in the US and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for food, drinking water and… -
Two public murals were unveiled at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Wednesday. The large-scale artworks were installed on the sides of a parking garage… -
Eighteenmile Creek in Lockport, N.Y. has been the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated area of concern for decades. Because of recent flooding,… -
As urban farms become a familiar feature of many large cities, they’re also presenting a challenge for zoning laws and regulators. This is the story… -
The City of Niagara Falls is set to receive a lump sum of $89 million after the settlement of a long-standing dispute between New York state and the… -
A national sensor and software company has relocated to western New York. Sentient Science moved from Idaho into the historic Butler Mansion in Buffalo to…
