The Niagara County Fair opened with a ribbon on Wednesday morning, bringing back favorite family activities while sending off ...

The Federal Reserve left its key short-term interest rate unchanged for the fifth time this year, brushing off repeated calls ...

The U.S. economy expanded at a surprising 3% annual pace from April through June, bouncing back at least temporarily from a ...

Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Just who is this cabal of (largely) downstate “special interests” messing with Western New York? (“NY State climate goals need a reality check,” published July 22 in the Union-Sun & ...

Lockport Police Chief Steve Abbott and motorcycle driving instructor Don Rawson agree that distracted driving is the biggest ...

Stacey Johnston is counting sheep all day at the Niagara County Fair in preparation for the 4-H sheep show at 5 p.m. today. Johnson is the county’s 4-H sheep club ...

This summer as Western New York celebrates the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, thousands of visitors to Lockport will see two ...

Imagine first responders arriving in downtown Niagara Falls, Lockport or any other town or village in Niagara County. The ...

A local institution hopefully will be strengthened by the addition of new features to the Niagara County Fair, which opens this morning with the traditional Farm-City Breakfast.

Democratic state lawmakers are pushing a plan that could allow them to redraw New York’s congressional districts, but any change would almost certainly not take place before the forthcoming midterm ...