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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Niagara County, NY – Drivers across Niagara County are being reminded of a free safety program designed to help first responders deliver faster, potentially life-saving medical care following a crash or...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Slow Roll Buffalo, the Western New York nonprofit known for bringing people together through cycling, hosted a memorial ride Saturday for one of its former ride directors who unexpectedly died last year. Lydia Sobczyk, a volunteer with the organization who served as a squad director on rides,...

Many adults in Western New York living with heart failure — especially Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) or mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) — have had limited treatment options for a long time. A promising investigational therapy, the Corvia Atrial Shunt, is now being studied in Buffalo...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Saturday marks 42 years since an explosion killed five Buffalo firefighters and two civilians. On Dec. 27, 1983, fire crews responded to reports of a large propane leak at the intersection of North Division and Grosvenor streets. Seconds after a crew arrived, an explosion leveled the four-story...

In a finger-licking feat, the City of Buffalo has earned a new world record — just by noshing on its signature food. The Western New York city, the birthplace of buffalo wings , broke the Guinness World Record for the largest chicken wing eating competition last week after 499 people gathered for the record-breaking...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The owners of a North Buffalo bar and restaurant will open their doors for the last time on Sunday morning. The Garage Bar & Restaurant, located at 1127 Hertel Ave., recently announced that it would close by the end of the year. The last day for The Garage will be Sunday, for brunch, from 10 a.m. to 2...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Police Department is asking for the public's help to find a missing child. Buffalo Police say that 14-year-old Ja'nia Batch was last seen wearing black pants, a black shirt, and a zip-up black hoodie, but police say she may have changed clothes. She has brown nose piercing and pink, blue,...

A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegally exporting live reptiles after falsely labeling them as toys in shipments bound for Hong Kong, federal officials announced this week. Sentenced in Buffalo, Wei Qiang Lin will serve 24 months in prison. Lin was convicted of...

The sightings of three black squirrels during a winter’s walk around my block led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I believe that it was about three years ago when I first spotted a black squirrel at the corner of Summer and Norwood. Until that point in time, I had really only seen a black squirrel during my visits to...