Tesla currently pays $1 a year in rent to a state-backed nonprofit entity. Under the pending deal, that figure would increase ...

A lawmaker is pushing the state to hit the brakes on signing a new tentative agreement with Tesla to operate a major state-owned factory it leases in Western New York. Assemblymember Pat Burke, a ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk used his personal wealth and influence to enter American politics, becoming the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency. And he is now discovering that Newton ...

Which brings us to the case of the Tesla factory in South Buffalo. The factory is there thanks to a 2014 deal with the state of New York ... Buffalo’s sprawling “gigafactory” for another ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Tesla factory in Buffalo does not pay rent or taxes, but Senator Sean Ryan, during a financial announcement on Friday, said it should, to account for budget shortfalls ...

As New York weighs a deal to let Tesla renew its lease at a state-owned factory in Buffalo, the electric carmaker is falling short of its job-creation commitments — prompting some state ...

But the Buffalo factory is New York’s biggest tie to Tesla ... s director of treasury and capital markets. “Tesla remains committed to making Gigafactory New York a world-class advanced ...

But the Buffalo factory is New York’s biggest tie to Tesla, and members of both parties have long panned the facility as a boondoggle. At Cuomo’s direction, the state spent almost $1 billion ...