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WHEATFIELD – Wheatfield Supervisor Robert B. Cliffe said Tuesday that the Town Board may vote Feb. 8 on whether to allow the developers of a new Aldi food store to install fewer parking... Read More

NIAGARA FALLS – Area residents who used needles, syringes or lancets in their homes can safely dispose of them through the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center’s sharps program.... Read More

LOCKPORT – Alderman R. Joseph O’Shaughnessy this week called for the state comptroller and attorney general to conduct audits of the Lockport city Treasurer’s Office and... Read More

A 38-year-old Kenmore man was arrested at Main Street and East Delavan Avenue about 9:30 p.m. Monday after his vehicle allegedly rear-ended another vehicle at Fillmore Avenue and East Delavan and... Read More

Word of the proposal to stop Niagara Falls’ flow has spread to Los Angeles. To London. To New Zealand.It’s gone global.So how does Niagara Falls, which already attracts millions from... Read More

LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man who took part in the attempted theft of two jet skis from a North Tonawanda business accepted a misdemeanor plea offer Monday. Robert L. Smith, 50, of Gold Street,... Read More

LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, who was on federal supervised release after a drug conviction, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court to having had a gun in his Hyde Park Boulevard... Read More

LOCKPORT – A man who picked up a shipment of $100,000 worth of cocaine in Niagara Falls in 2014 pleaded guilty Tuesday, and will receive a prison term of “six or seven years,”... Read More

LOCKPORT – A City of Lockport man avoided jail time Tuesday in connection with a June 13 Pendleton crash caused by drunken driving.Thomas J. Elberson Jr., 31, of Akron Street, was placed on... Read More

The Erie County Medical Center board of directors on Tuesday evening named Thomas J. Quatroche Jr. the hospital’s permanent chief executive officer.Quatroche had served as ECMC’s... Read More