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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...

(TNS) When President Barack Obama recently approved Shell’s request to drill in the Arctic, anti-fossil-fuel activists lobbied the Port of Seattle to ...

(TNS) On the question of immigration, the Republican Party is at a crossroads. The party could take the Jeb Bush approach. “The way I look at this,” B...

State Sen. Catharine Young has lost sight of something important in her opposition to raising fast-food restaurant employees’ minimum wage to $15 per ...

"This pain will come as a thief in the night. It will take away your peace if you let it; it will drag you into the harsh darkness of the misery of lo...

When I was a little boy, my father, Frank, and I would take nightly walks on his semi-regular visits, gazing skyward as we strolled the streets of Cub...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama returns to Africa this week, his major initiative to help the continent double access to electricity is in...

(TNS) There’s been a rash of conspiracy theories about secret concessions that Russian President Vladimir Putin is supposed to have made to Western le...

After five American soldiers were murdered in Chattanooga, Tennessee by a deranged Muslim gunman, the nation reacted with anger, shock and fear. "Litt...

I was spending another weekend at a travel basketball tournament site — this one at North Allegheny High School in the Pittsburgh area — and during a ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: An occasional look behind the rhetoric of politicians and public officials. WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare says its computerized fraud prev...

(TNS) TEL AVIV, Israel — Here’s a pop quiz about the six-nation nuclear pact with Iran, signed last week: Which Israeli official called it a “horrible...

(TNS) It will be weeks or perhaps months before the investigation concludes into what some authorities have called an “act of terrorism” at two milita...

I've reported before on the growing rebellion against collective standardized testing among parents, students and even teachers' unions. But I'd never...

The recent application by Genesis House for a use variance on a property, to be used to temporarily house and aid those less fortunate, has been put o...

Last August the Portville Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary was able to help 189 students, not only from our school district, but from surrounding dist...

(TNS) That Bill Cosby will be forever known as a serial abuser of women wasn’t determined by the findings of a jury. It didn’t come down to evidence s...