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CATTARAUGUS — The Cattaraugus Free Library will celebrate its 100th anniversary with an open house on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 21 Main St. i...

OLEAN — Olean city firefighters quickly extinguished a fire early Thursday morning in the kitchen area of an apartment at 450 Third Ave. No injuries w...

The Tri-County Arts Council announced is has welcomed artist Ellen Paquette’s “Wild Kingdom” to the Peg Bothner Gallery, which opened this past weeken...

Salamanca Police  March 11, 9:18 a.m. , Alicia D. Kindt, 37, of Salamanca, was charged with two counts of aggravated harassment of an employee by an i...

FRANKLINVILLE — State officials will skip annual stocking efforts near the site of a large fish kill last summer on Ischua Creek. State Department of ...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy has introduced legislation he says would ensure Transportation Security Administration officers receive pay and that airport...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Pitt-Bradford Arts, in partnership with Leadership McKean, is presenting “Why I Love McKean County: A Young Artists’ Celebration” — a ...

NEW YORK (AP) —  Americans still dig French bulldogs, retrievers and German shepherds. But dachshunds are increasingly hot dogs. For the first time in...

MARCY (AP) — A drone flew over the grounds of an Upstate New York prison after midnight and released a package containing knives, a cellphone, bandann...

OLEAN — Kris Karr, director of manufacturing for Cutco Cutlery Corp., will celebrate 30 years of service with the company next week. Karr first joined...

OLEAN — City officials are looking at several vacant properties for redevelopment. The city’s Urban Renewal Agency board on Wednesday discussed severa...

OLEAN — Laura Riley, who worked for decades in the city of Salamanca comptroller’s office and the Cattaraugus County treasurers office, has been appoi...

ANDOVER — The New York State Police have identified the body of a man found headless and without hands nearly 56 years ago in the town of Andover in A...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The 3rd annual Uppenovr — an uphill/downhill event that starts at Holiday Valley, goes up, over and down HoliMont and then back up and...

OLEAN — A plan to hire a consulting firm to temporarily  handle the city’s finances failed to get support from the Common Council. During a special me...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Board of Education continued its review of the 2026-27 budget on March 10 with a look at the instructional portion of the pr...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is urging state lawmakers to delay aggressive emission mandates in New York’s landmark climate law, citing the impact on en...

The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway. “The person said he was an off...