We’ve seen all of the trailers, seen old photos and heard from all the experts. Today, Mother Nature trumps all of the movie studios and brings you a literal once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster event. Of course, we’re talking about the solar eclipse. Chautauqua and Warren county residents ...

How best to help Jamestown’s homeless population is a problem with no easy solution. It was easy to mobilize resources a couple of years ago when tents started popping up in Brooklyn Square and along the Chadakoin River. The homeless placed themselves very much in the public eye for nearly ...

Democrats are lapping Republicans in this year’s election fund-raising, and could that be because GOP donors are wondering what they get for their money? Donors, both small-dollar and large, helped Republicans retake the House in 2022, and all they’ve received in return is a majority that ...

Perhaps retiring state Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Jamestown, has found his next calling as the modern-day Nostradamus. Less than a year ago, Goodell stood up on the Assembly floor and called for the state to set aside funding for automated external defibrillators the state was going to ...

It’s hard to have much hope that the cases of 14 women between the ages of 14 and 35 who have gone missing, been murdered or whose remains can’t be identified will ever be solved. But we have to give credit to the law enforcement officers who keep grinding over evidence trying to bring ...

The state is proposing an $18.5 million lifeline for the city of Dunkirk. The city won’t be living under a state-run Financial Control Board, but it will be awfully close. But no city resident should be under any illusion that the state-backed deficit reduction bonds won’t come with ...