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Editor's Note: It's going to feel like June this weekend as temperatures in the mid-80s make a welcome appearance. Chores around the house can wait for another weekend - get out and enjoy the weather and what's happening below the falls.

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Thousands of people lined Third Street in the Falls on Thursday, watching as Nik Wallenda practiced for his upcoming wirewalk over Niagara Falls.

The practice run, as will be the case until his June 15th stunt makes international headlines, was free.

It's quite another when an entire group of outdoors writers sings the praises of the area below the falls.

A man who swerved to avoid a number of deer in the road on Saunders Settlement Road this morning (Thursday) was sent to the hospital after he rolled his truck.

It happened around 4 a.m. just east of Wasik’s curve.

53-year-old Eugene Laubacker tried to miss four deer and went into the culvert and side swiped a tree before flipping the truck.

He was flown by Mercy Flight to ECMC with head and facial injuries.

The Small Business Development Seminar — which is co-sponsored by State Sen. George Maziarz with Niagara County Community College’s Small Business Development Center — will be held today from 7 to 9 p.m. at NCCC’s G Building Cafeteria.

Police have now released the name of the Ransomville teen who was taken to the hospital and charged with DWI after a crash on Bear Ridge Road in the Town of Pendleton on Monday night.

17-year-old Zoe Manners was found in a ditch after she lost control of her vehicle, hitting some mailboxes, rammed into a parked truck and then tried to walk away.

When she was working on election nights rather than hoping to get her name called, Dotty Riordan remembers times when only dozens of voters turned out in the Village of Youngstown.

She could've used a dozen votes on Tuesday night.

In a hotly contested race, interim mayor Raleigh Reynolds maintained the title he's held since former mayor Neil Riordan passed away, beating Riordan's widow by 10 votes.

The two have battled in both primaries, with Reynolds getting the Democratic nod and Riordan taking the Republican line, even though she's a Democrat by nature.

With Mother’s Day now on the back burner, Niagara University’s Office of Continuing Education is offering a great gift idea for all the fathers out there.

Ideal for amateur barbecuers, their friends and for Father’s Day, NU is accepting registrations for an innovative, hands-on continuing education course that will teach participants how to cook competition-quality barbecue ribs from start to finish.