A bizarre accident is being investigated on the New York State Thruway this afternoon. According to reports, a car traveling eastbound on Holmes Road crashed over a guardrail on Allegheny Road went airborne and landed on the New York State Thruway near Exit 58. Responders, including those ...

CELORON – Two Ohio women have been arrested following a multi-year investigation into the sale of meth in the southern end of Chautauqua County. On Thursday, narcotics investigators in Chautauqua County assisted the Drug Enforcement Agency in an arrest for methamphetamine distribution in ...

Four people have been arrested following an eight-month investigation into the sale of narcotics in the Dunkirk-Fredonia area. Investigators had been investigating narcotics activity that spread from the city to the village. Tuesday morning officers from the Dunkirk Police Department ...

OBSERVER Staff Report HANOVER — A widespread power outage in the town of Hanover was caused by a storm late Wednesday afternoon. Reports of a tree falling onto a power line on Routes 5 and 20 near Save A Lot left many residences and businesses without power. According to one source, an ...

There is a 55% property tax increase in Fredonia Mayor Michael Ferguson’s proposed 2025-26 budget. The number will almost certainly change as village trustees look over the plan and suggest changes. The trustees set dates to meet about the budget at their Monday meeting. “We’ll need at ...

Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt announced Monday that Randall Rolison, 61, of Jamestown, was sentenced on his conviction for first-degree promoting prison contraband, a class D felony, to two to four years in state prison to run consecutive to the lengthy prison sentences he ...