SOUTH DAYTON — The 2026-27 Pine Valley school budget proposal shows no tax increase to district residents. Never has a zero-increase drawn more criticism. The reason for the objection is less about this year, but more about how things got to this point. Joe Kortz, a member of the South ...

Jamestown police are investigating a Sunday stabbing that has left a person dead. On Sunday, May 3, around 4:30 a.m. city police officers responded to the area of Lakeview Avenue and East Eighth Street for a report of a stabbing victim. Once on scene, officers located an unresponsive person ...

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced awards for a total of 21 transformational projects for Western New York --- including nine in Westfield --- as part of two economic development programs: the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) and NY Forward. “The DRI and NY Forward winners in ...

Dunkirk Hospitality LLC is fighting the village of Fredonia’s attempts to force those staying at the former Route 60 EconoLodge to leave the building. The company filed an Article 78 lawsuit Friday asking the state Supreme Court to annul and vacate Fredonia’s April 27 direction to vacate ...

SINCLAIRVILLE — Graduates of Cassadaga Valley Central School from the 1970s and ‘80s may remember the school-wide community showcase event that was known as Spring Thing. The event has not been held in many years, but Cassadaga Valley administrators and students have been working to bring ...

Chautauqua County is well known for its north-south divide that has been evident for more than a century. It is a tiresome and defeatist attitude that residents in Dunkirk-Fredonia and Jamestown cannot work as one more often. In recent decades, efforts by the CHQ Chamber, the Chautauqua Sports ...