MAYVILLE — Chautauqua County has issued a statement regarding an incident Thursday at the clerk's office. According to the news release, a self-described First Amendment auditor visiting the Chautauqua County Clerk's Office was involved in an altercation with a non-county employee in the ...

Earlier this month, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced a partnership with University at Buffalo to further advance Great Lakes research priorities. The State University of New York University at Buffalo (UB) will serve as the new host of the Great Lakes Research ...

Aaron Gies, Democratic and Working Families candidate for Congress in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, defeated primary opponent, Kevin Stocker, with more than 71% of the vote. With 82% of the results in, 19,130 ballots have been counted so far across the large district, which ...

Dunkirk’s finances are not exactly robust, nor are they all that clear. There is one thing about them that is certainly robust and clear: The finger-pointing. Common Council members defended this week against “a growing narrative that the council somehow failed to act on the original ...

A Dunkirk man who injured two children in a drive-by shooting and was later illegally found with a gun has been sentenced. Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt announced Tuesday that 43-year-old Juan Cruz-Corraliza was sentenced by Judge David Foley to 5 years in state prison ...

The people of Fredonia lost their ability to speak at village trustee meetings Monday, though only some familiar critics bothered to complain. Mayor Michael Ferguson broke a 2-2 Board of Trustees tie on a measure that “suspends the public portion of the meeting until further notice effective ...