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The Olean Public Library has received a $10,000 gift from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation set up in 1911 by the industrialist and...

OLEAN — A winter storm that could dump several inches of snow on some part of Western New York this weekend will largely miss Olean, the National Weat...

New York state's annual statewide ban prohibiting residential brush burning begins Monday and runs through May 14, state Department of Environmental C...

KINGSTON (AP) — A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his vehicle into an SUV during a high-speed chase leading to the death of an 11-yea...

OLEAN -- Removal of some of the city’s last parking meters and funding the bus service were mulled by the Common Council on Thursday. As the Common Co...

WEST ALMOND — IMPACT: Friends Improving Allegany County Trails Inc. announced the hiring of Pauline Burnes, a founding member of IMPACT and a landscap...

BOLIVAR — Bolivar-Richburg Central School has inducted 15 new members into its chapter of the National Honor Society. The newly inducted members are A...

PORTVILLE — Two local villages will receive millions in state help with water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thur...

RANDOLPH — Randolph residents are celebrating their town’s 200th birthday this year. They kicked off their bicentennial celebration events on Saturday...

DEAR RUSTY: The time is nearing that I want to move from my current Social Security survivor benefit to my own SS retirement benefit at 70 years of ag...

YORKSHIRE — Two teenagers were charged with making threats against Yorkshire-Pioneer Central School District this week. The Cattaraugus County Sheriff...

OLEAN — The YMCA is more than just a gym — it's a place where members build lifelong friendships, children learn to stay safe in the pool, seniors fin...

An Olean-born writer, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for Rob...

Republicans in the New York Assembly and Senate expressed their opposition to  Democrats' one-house budget that, with increases to the governor's exec...

OLEAN — For Karli Davis, Sydnee Ganoung and Ashlyn Niver, the path to welding began with curiosity — either from watching family members work with met...

NEW YORK (AP) — With no clear end in sight, the war with Iran is sending oil prices back to $100 per barrel, and stocks are sinking worldwide on Thurs...

Proto and Driscoll juggle CPA rigors and raising family OLEAN — If you had asked Eileen Proto, upon her graduation from Olean High School in 2007, if ...