Niagara Falls residents are voicing their frustrations about the city’s splash pads and pools still being closed despite the excessive heat. They are not expected to open for another week.
In the aftermath of NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announcement on Monday that she is supporting an effort to construct a new nuclear power plant in upstate New York, civic leaders from Chautauqua County say they would embrace a plan to locate it at a shuttered, formerly coal fired power plant on the Lake Erie Shore in Dunkirk.
Former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield says he is officially stepping down and out of the Buffalo mayoral race with no intention of running as a third-party candidate.
Niagara Falls fire investigators probe a blaze Wednesday afternoon at 1611 Pine Avenue.
The office of state Assembly member Paul Bologna on Wednesday launched the annual Christmas in July Toy Drive in the 144th Assembly District. New, unwrapped toys are being collected on behalf of patients at John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital.