Standing in front of Buffalo’s VA Medical Center last month, U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy put the institution on alert during a press briefing. Following up on complaints heard from Western New York constituents regarding a lack of urgency with treatment, the congressman called for immediate ...

WESTFIELD — Seasonal crisp conditions returned to this community near the Lake Erie shore last weekend as the summer began to wane. With the exception of scattered showers, it was a nearly perfect day to celebrate one of Chautauqua County’s great treasures: its grape crop. During the ...

Practically giddy, the leader of Chautauqua County’s smallest school district was pleased to announce that numbers are rising in the elementary levels. Superintendent William Caldwell said Ripley enrollment for those in kindergarten to grade six could increase by 10% this coming ...

Some significant and painful choices are on the horizon in the final four months of 2024. As August and summer rapidly move toward a conclusion, January will bring a vastly different landscape nationally and in Chautauqua County. Much of America’s attention at the moment revolves around the ...

Shortly after 8:15 p.m. Monday, the scanner call went out. Law enforcement officers along with the Dunkirk and Fredonia Fire Departments responded to a gunshot wound at the Econo Lodge off Route 60 just near the village limits. It marked the fifth shooting incident in five days in Chautauqua ...

Congressional candidate Thomas Carle considers himself a problem solver. Throughout his years of running large and small businesses in the private sector, his actions were driven by finding results that benefited management as well as the workers. For more than two decades, Carle’s ...