ImmunityBio Chief Executive Officer Richard Adcock acknowledges the frustration with how long it's taken getting the Dunkirk plant up and running. At the same time, he states that he is committed to seeing it become a drug manufacturing plant that will eventually hire hundreds of people. ...

Fredonia Mayor Michael Ferguson wants the shutdown of a Route 60 motel notorious for violent incidents. “I have called for the immediate closure and abandonment of the property on Route 60 formerly known as the Econo Lodge,” Ferguson declared during his mayoral report at a Board of ...

A union has filed an appeal of an arbitration decision that went against former city of Dunkirk employee Kim Robbins. Robbins was a legal secretary who was told on Jan. 6, 2025, that she was getting laid off. The American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees filed a grievance, ...

Electric prices are skyrocketing and the state’s Independent System Operator is forecasting narrowing reliability margins for the state’s power grid this summer. At the same time, state Democrats are blaming President Donald Trump for the mess with little agreement on the future of the ...

The city of Dunkirk celebrated Arbor Day on Friday by planting eight Redbud trees on Washington Avenue. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has awarded an Urban Community Forestry grant to plant up to 400 new trees on city rights of way, on the terraces between ...

The city dog shelter situation howled its way to the forefront of Monday’s Dunkirk Finance Committee meeting. Mayor Kate Wdowiasz started the session off with several proposals for the Common Council. First, she wants the city to implement an impound fee for dogs of between $25 and $35 per ...