December 5 2025

WEST VALLEY — As West Valley Demonstration Project workers prepared a miscellany of legacy items for disposal this year, they dug up memories of a pat...

DEAR ABBY: My best friend of more than 10 years, "Ian," ghosted me! We used to talk about everything -- wives, children, jobs. We spent hours together...

ORCHARD PARK — Scattered above lockers is a picture of a white dog. Its teeth are showing and foam is flying from its mouth as if it’s about to pounce...

OLEAN — The Olean girls basketball team earned its first win of the season in dominant fashion, defeating Cattaraugus-Little Valley 50-21 on Thursday ...

SALAMANCA — The Warriors got off to a hot start on Thursday night, but were ultimately undone by Frontier’s three point shooting, as the Falcons made ...

OLEAN — At a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Olean, Paula Bernstein — past Rotary president, current Area 15 Area Governor for District 7090, and...

OLEAN — State officials are backing an effort to add a local house of worship and related structures to the State and National Registers of Historic P...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign Thursday in response to  a Pentagon inspector general's report find...

OLEAN — The Olean Senior Center, 112 N. Barry St., in the John J. Ash Community Building, announces its schedule for the week of Dec. 8. The center is...

The Justice Department failed Thursday to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous...

Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office YORKSHIRE — Samantha Guizzotti, 33, of Yorkshire, was charged at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday with endangering the welfare o...

CUBA — Imagine “The Wizard of Oz,” except it’s a sugar plum-induced, hazy dream, where Dorothy has a mousy sidekick and an animated grand fight scene,...

OLEAN — The Friends of the Olean Public Library brings book lovers and bargain hunters a special treat for the rest of the year with a Mini Flash Used...

OLEAN — Need to get your Christmas wishes to Santa? This weekend is a great time at a number of local events. A number of nonprofit and government gro...

ORCHARD PARK — Cornerback Darius Slay has put off reporting to the Buffalo Bills to instead take time to consider his future, the player’s agent confi...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has earmarked $100 million for a program to expand child care across New York state. Hochul has launched the Child Care Capital Cons...

Most parts of New York remain less populated in 2024 than they were in 2020 as the state struggled to recover from COVID-19, according to an analysis ...