The New York state Department of Transportation is advising motorists to expect the following nightly closures along Interstate 86 in the vicinity of the bridges over Chautauqua Lake in Bemus Point to facilitate an ongoing construction project. The closures will be in effect nightly from 11 ...

The Chautauqua County Health Department has confirmed that two feral or stray cats in the City of Jamestown have died from the rabies virus. No other cats have been identified as having rabies and currently the Health Department has no other open investigations of potentially rabid cats. The ...

County Sheriff James Quattrone will host a news conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Mayville to announce new information into the investigation of Yolanda Bindics. Bindics was 25 when she was reported missing to the Jamestown Police Department after she didn't return home after completing a ...

A delay in the announcement of the closing of Catholic Churches in the diocese of Buffalo has been announced. "I am pleased to report that productive meetings with families of parishes, which began more than two weeks ago, realized 52 family counter proposals made to a diocesan review ...

A Dunkirk man, who was convicted of a 2016 kidnapping in a retrial that took place in June, is headed to state prison. Samuel Saeli, 46, has been sentenced by Judge Paul B. Wojtasek to 19 years in state prison with 20 years of post-release supervision after he was convicted by a Chautauqua ...

Two homeless Jamestown residents face charges after a search for a child possibly living in a tent with a parent led to chase through the woods along the city Riverwalk. Robin J. Brown, 52, was charged with menacing a police officer, resisting arrest, second-degree obstructing governmental ...