Lockport News

With a nod to the 1950s, classic characters and Lockport, Tom's Diner invites people to 'step inside, step back in time.' Located at 11 Main St., the diner has been open for close to a decade.

The Girl Scouts of Western New York's Board of Directors announced last week that they will sell three camps.

What kind of bird is that? Patty Freck will help you answer that question at 1 p.m. in the Nature Center at Bond Lake Park, Lewiston.

Some residents who say that a new library tax was illegally imposed are attempting to gather signatures on a petition to force a new referendum on the issue this spring.

The return of Anthony Bannon as director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the art museum he headed from 1985 to 1996, is the quintessential win-win scenario for Western New York.

On Sunday, the Kenan Center House Gallery will open "Three Brushes," an exhibition of work by three Niagara County painters.

LOCKPORT, NY - The Niagara Wine Trail is near the top of the list of wine trails according to the Weather Channel.A The network announced that the Niagara Region in both the U.S. and Canada, rates No.

The "We Want Wegmans" group presented what is believed to be the largest petition in Town of Lockport history Wednesday night: more than 8,000 signatures urging Wegmans to build a store in the town.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. - A Niagara County Corrections Officer returned to court Thursday morning to face misdemeanor sex abuse and official misconduct charges.

"[Museums] are also places where culture is made ... We're going to create culture here -- in partnership with the campus." -- Anthony Bannon, new director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center Anthony Bannon, a former filmmaker and critic who made his name in Buffalo and served as director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center from 1985 to 1996, will ... (more)

LOCKPORT, N.Y. - Members of the 914th are back in the arms of their family and friends and one of them had a big surprise in store for their daughter at a school on Wednesday.

Lockport attorney Robert S. Roberson had another setback last week in his long-running dispute with Niagara County over legal fees he says he is owed by the county Sewer District for work he did before he was replaced in January 2006.

A Lockport woman has been arrested for allegedly passing a Suboxone tablet to an inmate of Niagara County Jail.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. - A former NFTA police officer will not go to prison for "sexting" with a young girl.

Brandon Hansen, 18, of Wheatfield is getting some help with his college tuition from the Fireman's Association of New York while serving as a volunteer at St.

Lockport State Senator George Maziarz said he was proud, he was relieved, and he was tired of being on the phone.

Volunteers from the SPCA of Niagara attended Wednesday's Common Council meeting to urge support for a whole new board of directors at the facility.

A Lockport man who police believe was involved in more than 70 business burglaries in Niagara and Erie counties will have to risk a 20-year prison sentence if he wants to enter a drug treatment program, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

A Jamaican national, who was living on Pound Street in Lockport when he allegedly accepted a 14-pound shipment of marijuana, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court.

State Police checkpoint stops of vehicles Tuesday on State Route 93 resulted in 17 traffic and vehicle violation cases, four safety restraint violations and two drug arrests, the agency reported.