Niagara Falls News

T hey're back and the community looks a little better for it. Nearly 400 volunteer members of a national Christian student group visited the city of Niagara Falls this week to lend a hand in fixing up homes belonging to senior citizens, the handicapped and low-income residents.

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A german shepherd service dog, named Prince, has been the eyes for his blind owner for four years.

Facing a 30-year prison sentence for murder, a Bloods gang member may be re-thinking his guilty plea.

A top official with the New York State Division of Parole told community leaders and residents on Thursday that his office will work harder to find alternative living arrangements for a group of supervised sex offenders who live within walking distance of an elementary school in Niagara Falls.

The Niagara Falls School District is losing more than just its second-in-command business officer when Joseph Giarrizzo leaves for the City of Tonawanda School District in two weeks.

Thousands of people whose hopes of re-enacting the Battle of the Plains of Abraham were dashed will be in New York state this weekend to replay another British military victory over the French.

The town of Persia was awarded a $300,000 grant to repave a county road, it was announced Tuesday.

Couples have made their way to Niagara Falls for generations - and The New Yorker explains why.

I didn't grow up as a big fan of holidays. Sure, there were Christmas presents, Easter eggs and a viewing of the ball drop on New Year's Eve, but by and large holidays were little more than a day off from work.

City Councilman Steve Fournier Jr. is out of the restaurant business, at least for the foreseeable future.

Angie Lucarini's day started early on Wednesday. By 7:30 in the morning people were ringing her doorbell with donations for her free yard sale.

Students and staff at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School are heading into the summer recess this week not knowing whether classes will resume in the fall.

The city of Niagara Falls is looking to purchase and demolish a Third Street property that gained notoriety during an investigation by federal authorities into an illegal prostitution ring.

The North End Block Club turned a dream into reality when they opened the Child's Kingdom Nor-Loc Park last year.

Schoellkopf Park has been transformed from an extension of a hospital campus, another grassy area that the lawn care worker had to mow, into a sprawling outdoor escape that is fast becoming a magnet for the arts.

There is perhaps no better example of "giving the store away" than a couple of so-called development agreements that have left Niagara Falls pillaged and the citizenry holding a putrid bag of coal.

The last cup of coffee will soon be served at the Starbucks inside Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Nearly a quarter of a million dollars will be pumped into the area economy this summer when Niagara Falls is host to the annual convention of the Firemen's Association of New York.

Lax oversight and poorly written development agreements have left the city with few options in dealing with the empty Rainbow Centre mall and dozens of acres of vacant properties near the Seneca Niagara Casino.