A recent incident in Warren provides an example of just how easy it can be to skirt well-meaning laws written to keep guns out of the wrong hands. A couple with Buffalo addresses living in Warren were both charged earlier this spring with several felony charges related to alleged false ...

Jamestown’s Development Department isn’t wrong to use social media to warn city residents about quality of life tickets for those who let their grass get too high. High grass is the top complaint the department hears once we hit the spring and summer months. Some lawns can look more like ...

This weekend The Post-Journal celebrates 200 years of bringing readers the news. We’ve all changed a lot over two centuries. We started publishing when our nation was 50 years old - which means our pages have been through the Civil War, two World Wars. We’ve chronicled the rise of a ...

Over the past eight years, there have been only 20 entries in the Chautauqua County Animal Abuse registry - though five have been added since December. All came from the city of Jamestown. Perhaps the creation of a new deputy position in the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office to focus ...

Jamestown is on track to spend all of the American Rescue Plan Act funding it allocated for housing demolitions by the end of the year. That means the city will meet the federal deadline for the use of that pot of money - though that should be the least of the city’s concerns, in our ...

The announcement of a $42,000 DEC grant to the Chautauqua Lake Partnership was easy to miss earlier this year, coming as it did only a couple of days before a judge announced Freshwater Wetland Act regulations the CLP and Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association had been fighting in state ...