Ashley Hirtzel
Reporter, Innovation Trail, Western New YorkAshley 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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A western New York business is creating terra cotta architectural features with the help of the latest technology. The objects are an important element in…
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The Environmental Protection Agency outlined its plans to clean up a heavily polluted creek at a public meeting in Lockport on Tuesday. But some residents…
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The Great Lakes Fishery Commission estimates that more than 40 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for food, drinking water…
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Eighteenmile Creek in Lockport, N.Y. has been a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated area of concern for decades. Because of recent flooding,…
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As delays pile up in the implementation of components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has…
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Mobile technology has created some new opportunities for citizen scientists to play an active part in research, especially with tighter budgets. Now a…
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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…
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The lengthy dispute over casino royalties was resolved in Niagara Falls on Thursday with the signing of new deal between the state of New York and the…
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A bill that could bring the dissolution of the bi-national peace bridge authority one step closer has passed through the New York State Assembly and…
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A bill passed in the State Senate aims to increase the number of green homes built in New York state. The legislation would give municipalities the power…