Grand Island News

EVANS, N.Y. - The Erie County Sheriff's Office says a three-year-old girl was inside a car at a road check that resulted in drug charges.

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, left, and Congressman Brian Higgins, right, talk with lifelong LaSalle resident John J. Mikula, 92, who has lobbied for a waterfront park in LaSalle for many years.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - One week after HSBC Bank officially turned over the keys to 195 of its branches to First Niagara, customers are saying the transfer wasn't so bad.

State Sen. Mark Grisanti has announced his nomination of Niagara Falls resident Matthew Mondeoux to the New York Senate's Veterans' Hall of Fame.

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, left, and Congressman Brian Higgins, right, talk with lifelong LaSalle resident John J. Mikula, 92, who has lobbied for a waterfront park in LaSalle for many years.

State Sen. Mark Grisanti has announced his nomination of Niagara Falls resident Matthew Mondeoux to the New York Senate's Veterans' Hall of Fame.

A worker from Empire Dismantlement Corp. hangs warning signs around the perimeter of the former Bethlehem Steel Administration Building on Furhmann Boulevard today.

Noco Energy Corp. is launching a retail gasoline convenience store franchise business across New York State and will cut the ribbon on its first location today.

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. Eyewitness News cameras were at The Pro Shop at Beaver Island Golf course Friday after an early morning fire burned the building.

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. - Firefighters were called to Beaver Island State Park golf course pro shop, Friday morning.

The first Earth Bowl Festival will take place Saturday, June 30, from 4 to 7 p.m., overlooking the scenic Niagara River, at the Riverside Salem United Church of Christ Environmental Cottage on Grand Island.

Lewiston-Porter voters will have the opportunity to review the district's proposed $40.472 million 2012-13 budget and $2.7 million capital improvement referendum, at a budget hearing Tuesday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the board room of the Lew-Port Community Resource Center.

United Kingdom-based Edwards is consolidating operations from different operations, including 28 new jobs from Massachusetts, into its $3.5 million Sanborn location.

Mark Mistriner, chair of the Business and Hospitality Division and coordinator of Culinary Arts at Niagara County Community College, has been recognized by the American Culinary Federation as the 2012 Northeast Region Chef Educator of the Year.

Former Niagara Falls City Judge Robert M. Restaino is determined not to let his most famous public act be his last.