Water Board repairing eight main leaks in city
NIAGARA FALLS – The Niagara Falls Water Board was working Tuesday to fix eight water main leaks in the city. Repair work, which started over the weekend, will continue through the week at the...
View ArticleIDA postpones meeting until next Wednesday
WHEATFIELD – The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency has postponed today’s meeting for a week because of weather concerns, the agency announced Tuesday afternoon.The meeting will be held at 9...
View ArticleFlood watch for Cayuga Island canceled
The New York Power Authority has cancelled a flood watch for Cayuga Island in Niagara Falls, Mayor Paul A. Dyster has announced on his Facebook page. The watch remains in effect for the Robert Moses...
View ArticleLive blog: Digging out from blizzard
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View ArticleNo sign of embattled Gabryszak at state Capitol
ALBANY – There were no signs of Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak at the Capitol today for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address. In the first day of the 2014 session since allegations of sexual...
View ArticleOfficials identify man killed in Niagara Falls fire
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls police have identified Thomas R. Bozek, 57, as the man who was killed in a fire early Tuesday morning in his apartment on the upper floor of 536 26th St. Three people...
View ArticleCuomo envisions $100 million genome center in Buffalo
ALBANY – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo used his State of the State address today to announce the establishment of a $100 million genomic research facility in Buffalo that will link gene researchers in...
View ArticleNo sign of embattled Gabryszak at state Capitol
ALBANY – There were no signs of Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak at the Capitol today for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address. In the first day of the 2014 session since allegations of sexual...
View ArticleFirst Niagara cutting 170 jobs, closing 10 branches
First Niagara Financial Group is cutting 170 jobs and closing 10 branches as the bank adapts to how customers are using its services, an executive said.The positions are being cut at branches around...
View ArticleDefendant in Buffalo crash arraigned in Falls assault
LOCKPORT – Asad R. Hixon, who is under indictment in Erie County for allegedly causing injuries to five people by crashing his car into two other vehicles during a Nov. 3 chase by Buffalo police,...
View ArticleSentencing delayed in Inglima sex case
LOCKPORT – Sentencing on a sex charge against former Hertel Avenue and Lewiston restaurateur Filippo Inglima was delayed for a month Wednesday to try to avoid conflicts with his federal sentencing on...
View ArticleEggs and a damaged bumper cause thousands in damage at car dealership in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – The manager at Steve Baldo Ford at 6080 Niagara Falls Boulevard told police that sometime between 8 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday someone threw eggs at several vehicles in the used...
View ArticleTown supervisor’s criminal case reassigned after Kloch recuses himself
LOCKPORT – The criminal case against Town of Niagara Supervisor Steven C. Richards has been reassigned after State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. recused himself, court officials said...
View ArticleFalls Housing Authority revamps outreach
NIAGARA FALLS – The Niagara Falls Housing Authority is revamping its community outreach efforts.The organization has relaunched its quarterly magazine and is planning some upgrades to its cable...
View ArticleTown of Lockport residents demand action on sewers
LOCKPORT – The Town Board is planning a decade-long program of water and sewer repairs, but some residents called Wednesday for faster action on flooding woes in their areas.Residents of Eastwood,...
View ArticleMarchant manslaughter trial under way
LOCKPORT – A neighbor saw Jennifer Marchant and her boyfriend Ralph D. Stone Jr. “giggling and smiling” about 10 minutes before Marchant stabbed Stone to death, Assistant District Attorney Lisa M....
View ArticleFour children and two women trapped in a fire rescued in Middleport
MIDDLEPORT – As thick smoke poured from a burning, two-story apartment building, the Middleport police chief and a Niagara County sheriff’s deputy rescued four children as their mother handed each...
View ArticleCuomo envisions $100 million genome research facility
ALBANY – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled an election-year grab bag of policy proposals Wednesday in his fourth State of the State, including funding for a genome research consortium between Buffalo and...
View ArticleMericana offers Lockport surprises in a modestly upscale restaurant
In recent years, Lockport-area eaters looking for a finer-than-diner meal have had three main choices: red sauce Italian, traditional American steakhouse or drive to Buffalo. ¶ That changed in...
View ArticleCarney not in the running for election commissioner
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Republican Chairman Scott P. Kiedrowski said Wednesday that he’d prefer to promote someone on the GOP staff at the Board of Elections to the vacant election commissioner...
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