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ALBANY — Several area projects will receive state help totaling nearly $1.1 million to improve the quality of streams and groundwater. Gov. Kathy Hoch...

The invasive and potentially destructive spotted lanternfly continues to close in on the western Twin Tiers region. This past week, Pennsylvania added...

Should residents in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania be concerned that toxic chemicals might have drifted from the site of the Feb. 3 Ohio ...

ALFRED — At most typical college or university biology labs, the human body is studied by using textbooks, molded plastic models, and printed diagrams...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation Trees for Tribs’ “Buffer in a Bag” program will offer 25 seedlings to help the state’s landowners s...

Perhaps we can blame COVID fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to spread th...

ALBANY (TNS) — Inspired by the amazing success of George Santos, a good friend of mine, I am announcing today that I will run for Congress. Let me be ...

ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is in its second year of studying moose in the Adirondacks, fitting 19 moose with...

ITHACA (TNS) — Early COVID-19 variants that no longer circulate among humans are surging among New York’s white-tailed deer, raising questions about w...

Each year on Feb. 2 many of us await the verdict of a groundhog’s shadow — or no shadow — to tell us if we are in for a hard six more weeks of winter....

To mark Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, the New York State Department of Health reminds folks to schedule a screening appointment or get the human pa...

ALBANY — New York’s legislature took a critical step Tuesday toward changing the state’s constitution to bar discrimination based on “pregnancy outcom...

ALBANY — New York's Legislature is poised to take another step Tuesday toward adopting a constitutional amendment that would bar discrimination based ...

As National Blood Donor Month continues, the American Red Cross celebrates those who give blood and platelets to help save lives — especially now to e...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York state is now allowing people who identify as a non-binary to list their gender as “X” on vital documents. The New York Depar...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The new highly contagious XBB.1.5 COVID variant has become the most predominant strain of the virus circulating in New York state, th...

WELLSVILLE — Things really do come full circle. Eighty years later, we can return the favor that saved World War II sailors from drowning by planting ...

JAMESTOWN — Audubon Community Nature Center executive director Leigh Rovegno had the heart-wrenching task of announcing that after 20 years of inspiri...