Chautauqua Institution is asking the state Supreme Court to award $450,000 for damages after a February sprinkler malfunction damaged the institution’s amphitheater. On Tuesday, attorney Daniel W. Coffey of Albany filed a suit on behalf of Chautauqua Institution against Allied Fire ...

Dunkirk Councilwoman Abigail Zatorski called City Attorney Elliott Raimondo “a waste of taxpayer dollars” during her report time at the latest Common Council meeting. Zatorski is angry at Raimondo because she says he has failed to work with her on a downtown parking issue. She said he ...

MAYVILLE – Special state legislation will be needed for the money that was part of the former Mayville Village Fire Department to be released to the new department protecting the village. Mayville created a Fire and Rescue Equipment Reserve Fund back in 2018, which was established to ...

SHERIDAN — Construction projects are much more expensive than they were just a few years ago. Even so, the town of Sheridan is still moving forward with another significant project, Phase II of the renovations to Sheridan Bay Park campground. The low bids to construct a new bathhouse and a ...

A Western New York facility is part of a prison downsizing plan announced by the New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. In a news release issued Tuesday morning, officials noted the partial closing of the Collins Correctional Facility. Plans are for the location ...

For 20 years, the former CE Welch building in the village of Westfield has remained vacant. A proposal to turn it into apartments and commercial space could begin in the late spring with plans for it to be open by 2027. Sam Savarino, the chief executive officer of Savarino Companies, ...