Coronavirus

OLEAN — When an individual becomes seriously ill and needs the care of a nurse, some families are now turning to HomeCare & Hospice to avoid hospitali...

For the past six weeks, relatives and friends of residents at the Pines Rehabilitation and Nursing Centers in Olean and Machias have had to settle for...

RICHBURG — Lene Jones was “at the brink.” At 66, with the underlying health conditions of diabetes and COPD, she was lying in a Rochester General Hosp...

ALBANY (TNS) — The three-day average of new coronavirus hospitalizations in New York fell below 1,300 people on Thursday for the first time since Marc...

OLEAN — Locals needing surgery put off by the COVID-19 pandemic may start to get their operations next week. Following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcemen...

BELMONT — One more COVID-19 case was reported in Allegany County on Friday — and one more patient recovered — as local children try to help area farme...

OLEAN — COVID-19 claimed the life of a second Cattaraugus County resident Friday, while two more positive cases brought the county total to 35. The la...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca City Central School District has set up several Wi-Fi points located around the school district to assist families with inte...

BUFFALO — In the past two weeks, doctors in the United States — including those in Buffalo — have noticed a new and potentially devastating link betwe...

OLEAN — High school graduates and their families have an option to have unique pictures taken during a Knights of Columbus fundraiser to benefit the S...

(This story has been edited to correct an error related to testing at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.) ALFRED — With no SAT or ACT exams on ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Jail inmates are pitching in to help produce face masks for corrections officers, deputies and first responders. Th...

When Olean nurse Kristin Simon arrived at a hospital in the New York City borough of Queens a week and a half ago, she was shocked by what she saw. Si...

BELMONT — The number of confirmed and recovered cases of COVID-19 remained flat on Thursday, but health officials are concerned about more than just p...

ALBANY (AP) — With New York nursing homes reporting more than 3,500 COVID-19-related deaths over the past six weeks, several lawmakers are calling for...

OLEAN — Two more Cattaraugus County residents tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, county health officials said. That makes 33 confirmed cases si...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The administration of Gov. Tom Wolf cautioned Thursday that a declining case count is just one factor that officials will consider i...

New York’s two Democratic U.S. senators, the governor — even Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Reed — fired back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s su...