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 ...

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 ...

Jesus Aponte-Rosario, 35, of Dunkirk, was sentenced to seven years in state prison with five years post-release supervision as a violent predicate felon this week, the Chautauqua County District Attorney’s office reported. Aponte-Rosario pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal possession ...

A six-month investigation into narcotics activity at 3711 Route 5 Lot 53 in the town of Dunkirk resulted in one arrest on Wednesday. Before 9 a.m., narcotics investigators from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office, Dunkirk Police Department and Jamestown Police Department executed a search ...

The village of Westfield has been awarded $4.5 million by the state for its Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The village of Cattaraugus was the biggest winner in Western New York, getting $10 million, while the village ...