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ALBANY (TNS) — New York plans to “advance” $1.5 billion to cash-strapped organizations and agencies as Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he won’t consi...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed continued to push for a bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 relief package Wednesday as negotiations remained hung up over state and l...

A strong September helped wipe away many of the local sales tax collection losses earlier this year, the state reported Tuesday. But state aid cuts an...

While the good news this week is that the Cuomo administration restored the 20% aid cut from school districts for the month of September, the sobering...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York has started accepting application s for its Excelsior Scholarshi p program that aims to provide students with free tuition t...

New York State County Executives Association members express the dire need for state and local government aid in a new coronavirus relief bill — even ...

OLEAN — Tax revenue and state aid are coming in at lower levels than expected due to COVID-19, city officials said, but so far major cuts to operation...

OLEAN — Citing loss of revenue and increased costs due to COVID-19, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allo...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed on Monday called on the federal government to release funding to increase coronavirus testing capacity and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to dis...

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...

News that school districts in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties would share a more than $7 million increase in aid from New York state’s $178 billion ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Donald Trump has declared New York a major disaster area due to the coronavirus pandemic, a move that opens the door to b...

The $28.5 billion set aside in the proposed 2020-21 New York state budget for schools contains more than $335.4 million in state aid for districts in ...

OLEAN — The city will receive nearly $1 million in funding for a water project, one of three municipalities in Cattaraugus County that will receive mi...

The other day I was trying to remember the last time I had a good sleep. It must have been a weekend back in the mid-1960s before it became our job to...

SALAMANCA — With the public vote on the next proposed capital project in the Salamanca City Central School District less than two months away, the Boa...

OLEAN — Cities statewide are seeking more money to take care of state arterial routes. On Monday, the New York Conference of Mayors sent a letter sign...

OLEAN —Mayor Bill Aiello will be in Albany Monday for the New York Conference of Mayors’ annual winter legislative meeting, in which he will join in u...