By noon, when they may take another break to surf for updates, they'll surf back to the immediate publication news sites. By not publishing until 9 am, and only once a day, The News is clearly fearful of this new information medium. They must be afraid that publishing online would eat into newsstand sales. There is no other explanation that makes sense. Furthermore, The News online edition publishes no news writing that isn't found in print.
Print is so limited in space.
For the most part you can't write a ten-page news story for a print edition. It costs real money to print a story, and most stories are fairly short and heavily edited. The space is literally free. That kind of cross-pollination exists in other publications, but not locally. Clearly The Buffalo News does not embrace the Internet for information purposes.