Breaking News
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
Columnists, Opinion
Jul 27, 2023
Regardless of whether we’re alone in the universe, there’s no valid reason for us to be in the dark. The House Oversight Committee on National Securit...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 27, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — Between this summer’s biblical floods, apocalyptic fires and life-threatening heat domes, people are starting to wonder whether we’ve...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jul 26, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Mulling over the conspiracies pushed by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led me to a question: Why aren’t more p...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 26, 2023
Recently, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has printed thousands of flyers it plans to distribute at the U.S.-Mexico border. The flye...
Commentary, New York
Jul 25, 2023
The highest judicial authority in New York, the seven-judge Court of Appeals, will be hearing a case from a midlevel Albany appellate panel that wrong...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 25, 2023
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally. The eponymous physicist and “f...
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Jul 24, 2023
Government experts and the media tell us that the crippling wave of inflation that hit us during the COVID pandemic is slowly receding, or at least be...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 24, 2023
Wow, big news broke last week — President Biden’s campaign is officially going to be headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. For months nervous Democra...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 24, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — We don’t know what specific charges special counsel Jack Smith will pursue if former President Donald Trump is indicted on allegati...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 23, 2023
If people have any chance of living here affordably, New York City and its environs desperately need more housing, with a substantial share of it rese...
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Jul 23, 2023
Ron DeSantis seems to believe that his best chance of becoming the GOP presidential nominee is to be more extreme than the guy he needs to defeat, Don...
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Jul 23, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately ...
Commentary, Nation World
Jul 21, 2023
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee offered U.S. Supreme Court justices an opportunity to salvage their standing with the American people on W...
Commentary, Daily Headlines, Local Columnists, ...
Jul 21, 2023
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support...
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Jul 21, 2023
There’s being fortunate in your enemies, and then there’s having enemies who are helping you take the first step in your political comeback. Donald Tr...
Commentary, Daily Headlines, Local Columnists
Jul 20, 2023
WELLSVILLE — In the mid-1990s I convinced my sister Pat to join the Great Wellsville Balloon Rally Committee with me. It ended up being more than a de...
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Jul 20, 2023
Two years from now, New York City may run short on power, potentially leading to blackouts during normal summer temperatures. Heat waves would exacerb...
Commentary, Nation World
Jul 19, 2023
Campaign talk is cheap, but if President Joe Biden meant any of his 2020 talk of uniting Americans, he’s clearly succeeding, just not in the way he in...
Local News, News
August 21, 2026
St. BONAVENTURE — A focus on wellness was the theme of the year for the Southern Tier Leadership Summit. The annual event, held on Thursday at St. Bon...
Lifestyle, Lifestyles
August 21, 2026
DEAR ABBY: My friend of many years, whom I consider to truly be part of the family, has made food the only thing that makes her happy. Besides my husb...
Local News, News, NY State News
August 21, 2026
A new study from aggregator website WalletHub has identified the most “fun” states to live in America. “Living in one of the most fun states can boost...
Commentary, Opinion
August 20, 2026
Socialism gets rebranded every generation. New faces, a new hashtag and a catchy slogan, but the pitch stays the same: This time will be different. It...
Commentary, Opinion
August 20, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — If the bad news is that members of Generation Z can’t afford to buy a house until they are middle-aged — which isn’t really bad news,...
Commentary, Opinion
August 20, 2026
The number 40 trillion — 40 followed by 12 zeros — is largely incomprehensible as it pertains to everyday life. But for context, consider that 40 tril...
