Breaking News
September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 09, 2024
It was a page from the authoritarian state playbook: A high-ranking government official falls ill, yet the development is kept under wraps. Questions ...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jan 09, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — I have never been a visionary — or even, since I have two eyes, a double visionary — but I recently read a newspaper report about dri...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 08, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year’s presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wa...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 08, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was as competitive then as I am now. I’d fling myself across the basement to save a point. I’d throw a fit if I pocketed the 8-ba...
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 07, 2024
With critical elections coming in 2024, it’s time to talk about a pressing issue in several states: a lack of poll workers. Prior to 2020, many took p...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 07, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the fighting in Ukraine continues, some representatives in Congress, primarily Republicans, oppose additional financial and mili...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 07, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end ar...
Commentary, New York
Jan 05, 2024
ALBANY — A coalition of good government groups is urging a New York panel to prioritize transparency and public input as it draws new congressional ma...
Commentary, Leters to the Editor, Local Columnists
Jan 05, 2024
We are about to embark on what might be one of the wildest years in the history of American politics, and it may end up merely as a prelude. If 2024 i...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jan 05, 2024
Hochul vetoes bills that would drive employers from the state. In the rare good news department, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the year by vetoing ...
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 04, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the war in Ukraine nears its second anniversary, there are signs that both Russia and the West are beginning to look toward the ...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jan 04, 2024
The governor gets the Legislature to minimize transparency of limited liability corporations as part of the year-end rush to sign or veto legislation....
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 03, 2024
We’ve started a new year, and 2024 should be quite an eventful time. For one, we will spend much of the year going through the process of selecting pr...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World, ...
Jan 03, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the spirit of the season, how about a glass-half-full view of our parlous politics in 2023? Whatever else it was, 2023 was a yea...
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 02, 2024
For all President Biden’s desperate desire to avoid “escalation” in the Middle East, United States forces on Sunday sank three Houthi boats trying to ...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 02, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — My New Year’s resolution 12 months ago was to write fewer columns about Donald Trump. That well-intended goal met the same end as m...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 02, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 01, 2024
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Almost everything I hope for when it comes to foreign policy in 2024 seems outlandishly Pollyanna-ish. But a person has the right...
Local News, News
September 30, 2025
From backing McKinley and preventing fires to closing Rocky Crest Sanitorium, from honoring newsmen to a new ER, here’s a look back on the week that w...
Local News, News
September 30, 2025
The Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau announces that this week’s featured Youth Citizenship Award recipient is Taylor Foster, the daughter of LJ and Isr...
Local Sports, Sports
Sports Roundup
September 29, 2025
PORTVILLE — Portville boys soccer blew out Olean 5-0 at home on Saturday. Colin German had a hat-trick, while Luke Edwards and Garrett Reynolds had th...
Local Sports, Sports
September 29, 2025
OLEAN — Huskies volleyball battled back from behind time and time again Monday night, but weren’t able to do quite enough to take down Chautauqua Lake...
Local News, News
September 29, 2025
BELFAST — The Belfast Historical Society announcedd the installation of a new historical roadside marker recognizing the William Muldoon training barn...
Local News, News
September 29, 2025
OLEAN — Rev. Jim Balson Jr. was officially installed Sunday afternoon at Olean First Baptist Church during a special service. Rev. Reid Ferguson of Fa...
