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It takes a lot of planning and hard work on the part of many people to organize and pull off events like the Gus Macker street basketball tournament a...

(TNS) At about the time you’re reading this column, I may be holding the first or second class meeting for the courses that I teach at my college. The...

(TNS) If promises matter, it’s been a very good stretch for renewable power. At the end of July, Hillary Clinton said that as president she would aim ...

Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans — Cokie's hometown — breaking the levees and damaging or destroying almost all of the city's...

Some reflections after a busy weekend … My hat’s off to the Gus Macker organizers for the job they did this year in pulling the tournament off in what...

(TNS) One of my keenest memories of Julian Bond is his voice. It had a beautiful tone, smooth and musical and soft. In the 1970s, when Julian was in t...

(TNS) California in the Great Drought is a living diorama of how the future is going to look across much of the United States as climate change sets i...

It was clear that the city of Olean’s Planning Board took pains to be fair Monday evening in considering a special permit request from the Kingsmen Mo...

(TNS) In the first Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump swore he’d build a wall to keep out Mexican migrants and his GOP rivals lined up to as...

Sometimes we only pay attention when there's a storm. I thought this as I saw headline after headline commenting on a new film involving a famous tele...

Will Joe Biden run for president? An answer to that question should come by fall, and meanwhile, Team Biden will be weighing the arguments for and aga...

(TNS) Imagine for a moment that, instead of the federally run Customs and Border Protection agency, Texas, Arizona and neighboring states were charged...

(TNS) Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen a strange convergence. The story of surreptitious Planned Parenthood videos, which appear to show doctors ha...

(TNS) My nephew, a responsible, sweet-natured young father, reports that his son, 12, will be trying out for his school’s football team this fall. He ...

If the Minnesota dentist, who has become Public Enemy No. 1 in animal-rights and anti-hunting circles, indeed killed Cecil the lion in circumstances t...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — If any hopes have been raised that the progress between the United States and Iran to halt Tehran's development of nucle...

The Olean Area Garden Walk Committee wholeheartedly thanks the community for its participation in the Garden Walk event. It turned out to be a banner ...

Work was ongoing this week on two new floating docks at access points on the Allegheny River — in Allegany and Portville — to give kayakers and canoei...