State lawmakers are again attempting to create harsher penalties for businesses that take advantage of market instability and keep prices unnecessarily high. Legislation (S.9372) proposed by Sen. Cordelle Cleare, D-New York City, proposes criminal charges as an option for price gouging, ...

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute (RTPI) will present a new juried exhibition exploring the connection between art, nature, and environmental stewardship. Titled Art that Matters to the Planet: Beyond Beauty, the exhibition celebrates the world of wildflowers, while touching on concerns ...

Adhrit Chowdhury was the champion of the Western New York Regional Championship of the Scripps Spelling Bee sponsored Saturday by the State University of New York at Fredonia. His winning word was mortadella, meaning a large smoked sausage made of beef, pork, and pork fat and seasoned with ...

Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is launching a new $1.6 million grant program to assist Western New York communities with environmental restoration projects. Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper’s Western ...

The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation and the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation have added Rural Philanthropy Fellows to their teams through a partnership with the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation welcomed Solimar “Soly” Vazquez as ...

Rural Minds, a local nonprofit organization focused on mental health in rural America, has recently launched a new program focused on connecting farmers to mental health resources. The new program, known as the Farmer Mental Health Resilience Program, has been developed to provide farmers and ...