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OLEAN — When WT Hair salon in Olean experienced a mandatory shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, owner Leo Wolters Tejera and his partner turned ...

Some New Yorkers are flouting stay-at-home orders and continuing to party amid the coronavirus pandemic. NBC reports a New York City bar owner has bee...

OLEAN — John Crawford, Ward 5 alderman, noticed a void in all the noise around COVID-19 circulating around social media — there was no centralized sit...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania rose by 50% to more than 1,600 cases, while record numbers of state r...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The welcome mat has always been out in Ellicottville — until now. With the novel coronavirus raging in the New York City area, officia...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed joined President Trump and other Republicans Tuesday in calling for commerce to restart in the country much sooner than public heal...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration reported more coronavirus-related deaths in Pennsylvania on Wednesday and ordered residents of Lehigh...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Former local music educator Darren B. Litz has been named executive director of the Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center. Litz...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency board voted on Tuesday to revise its tax exemption policy for new community solar...

There are few sentences that carry as much “I’ve moved up in the world” cache as, “I’m on the board.” In the corporate world, having a seat on the boa...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Even as he ordered residents of another county to stay at home, Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday quietly allowed gun shops to reopen on...

OLEAN — Professional and amateur sewers throughout the area have been sitting at their sewing machines, sometimes all night, to stitch together badly ...

It’s scary knowing that some disease that hasn’t even been reported yet in Cattaraugus County is causing havoc. But that doesn’t mean we can’t act sma...

OLEAN — Siemens officials confirmed that the city’s largest manufacturer will remain operational under a state executive order shuttering nonessential...

OLEAN — One of the less obvious impacts of COVID-19 is on the nonprofit community, some of whom raise funds only to donate them back into our neighbor...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers are preparing to meet via video conferencing this week, foregoing a formal meeting in the County Center b...

BELMONT — Allegany County government is limiting public access to the courthouse and county office building, with face-to-face transactions by appoint...

BUFFALO — Catholic Charities of Buffalo is there to help as always, and the human service organization that serves the eight counties of Western New Y...