Entering January, Chautauqua County had a COVID positivity rate of 10.7%. That number is calculated by taking the number of confirmed cases over a seven-day span and comparing it to the total number of tests administered during that time. New York state used the metric to place restrictions ...

As a new semester gets underway, enrollment worries continue to be a focus at the State University of New York at Fredonia. President Dr. Stephen Kolison praised the campus during a meeting with the Dunkirk-Fredonia Rotary Club during the winter recess, while lamenting a decline in support ...

The Chautauqua County Department of Health on Tuesday reported 42 new cases of COVID-19 along with four new virus-related deaths. To date there have been 6,785 confirmed cases within the county and 111 COVID-related fatalities. According to county data, four people between the ages of 40 ...

ALBANY (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that he is giving county officials the power to add taxi drivers and restaurant workers to the list of people eligible for a coronavirus vaccine. If counties take the governor up on his offer, that would mean another major expansion of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden told Republican senators during a two-hour meeting he's unwilling to settle on an insufficient coronavirus aid package after they pitched their slimmed down $618 billion proposal that's a fraction of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking. No compromise was ...

Positivity rates for COVID-19 and hospitalizations continued their downward pace over the weekend. According to the latest state numbers, the seven-day average for the COVID-19 positivity rate has declined for 23 straight days to 5.17%, which is the same rate for Western New York. “We’ve ...