North Tonawanda News

North Tonawanda now has a five-year lease agreement with global carbon firm Calgon, one key component of balancing the city's hopeful revenues in the 2010 budget.

When Brian and Gary Metzger, owners of Metzger Removal Inc., signed on to build the piles of rubble that would later house the Vigilant Guard exercise at the former Spaulding Fibre site, they did so with little time to spare.

A minor accident Friday on Oliver Street in North Tonawanda sent one man to the hospital with possible neck injuries.

Two days after helping his party score several key victories in local elections, the long-time chairman of the Niagara County Republican Party announced his decision to step down.

Amid the buzz of elections Tuesday, the North Tonawanda Common Council conducted business as usual.

As news of Mayoral candidate Rob Ortt's overwhelming victory sank in Tuesday among North Tonawanda voters, so too did the results of six other city races.

Mayor Larry Soos Friday issued a press release disputing the significance of mayoral challenger Rob Ortt's campaign promise Wednesday that if elected he would freeze reassessments for a three year period.

Every local native knows North Tonawanda's lumber-rich past and that CNN's Wolf Blitzer attended Kenmore West High School.

The theft of a bicycle led to a noontime scrap in the middle of Broad Street on Friday.

Two soloists will be featured at the annual Veterans Day concert by the American Legion Band of the Tonawandas, Post 264 at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

City of Tonawanda LARCENY: Timothy J. Wisniewski, 44, 48 Ganson St., North Tonawanda, was arrested Sunday for shoplifting at Tops on Niagara Street.

In February, members of three area United Way organizations voted to consolidate, but an appeal by 21-year executive Director George O'Neil of the Tonawandas group has since prompted the state attorney general to order a revote.

One citywide Council seat and posts in the city's three wards are up for grabs in next week's general election.

Paroled Sex offender James McKinney has been moved out of North Tonawanda to the satisfaction of city officials, but not as planned.

North Tonawanda's Third Ward Alderman Nancy Donovan announced Friday the annual "Clean Sweep" will take place Sunday along Oliver Street.

Life is about taking risks, it has been said, unless you ask your insurance man.

SUNY Fredonia is always on the lookout for new majors it can offer to students. Mike Raisch, however, came up with a new one on his own.

October 22, 2009, 7:00 AM / A North Tonawanda man who is already a registered sex offender faces a likely prison term of 20 years after pleading guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of possession of Internet child pornography.

Political opponents of Democrat Mayor Lawrence V. Soos wanted progress stalled on a proposed Walmart Supercenter in order to harm the mayor's chances for re-election, according to an outgoing Republican lawmaker.

North Tonawanda council members on Tuesday denied a zoning change required to sell the former St.