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The dairy industry has a familiar question for you: “Got milk?” Six years after the popular tagline was retired, “Got milk?” ads are back. A dairy ind...

GENEVA (TNS) — An icy breeze blows off the shores of Seneca Lake, rattling the glass panes of the Cornell University greenhouse in Geneva, a small cit...

OLEAN — The community may be apart, but now is the time to draw together to get a jump on rebuilding after coronavirus. Meme Yanetsko, chief operating...

ALBANY (TNS) — Consumer confidence in the economy dropped at a record rate in New York as the coronavirus pandemic roiled public sentiment in New York...

Due to nearly constant news developments relating to the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Olean Times Herald is providing free access to its online news upda...

NEW YORK — State Attorney General Letitia James issued guidance Thursday highlighting available resources and potential consumer scams related to coro...

“Locally grown” is a watchword that has become synonymous with quality of life, particularly in small-farm-conscious Upstate New York. And a new study...

ALBANY — A statewide wholesale carbon tax would initially cost consumers a few dollars more per month but it should lower prices over the long term, a...

OLEAN — Are you sick of annoying robocalls at all hours of the day? You are not alone. The Do Not Call list of 10 years ago is in need of updating to ...

President Trump is now well on his way to implementing sizeable tariffs on every item that enters the U.S. from China while so-called “anti-tax” Repub...

More and more Democrats have begun to call for the establishment of a “single-payer” healthcare system in the U.S. to replace the flawed Affordable Ca...

New York state is warning taxpayers this tax season to watch out for tax scams. The state attorney general’s office this week issued a list of common ...

Did you pull out last year's Christmas lights, and did they work? If you can avoid buying new lights this year, you are doing well — though you might ...

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli urges New Yorkers to read the fine print on gift cards this holiday season for details about fees and ex...

Imagine Vladimir Putin honoring President Trump with a “Freedom Medal” for being such a vigorous champion of a free and independent press. That’s just...

Rep. Tom Reed has voiced strong support for the tariffs that President Trump is imposing on imported steel and aluminum, just as he’s done with every ...

The headlines scream healthcare confusion: “CVS/Aetna merge in healthcare megadeal” “Amazon teams with BerkshireHathaway and JP Morgan to address heal...

W hile we’re a far cry from gasoline prices of well over $3 per gallon a few years ago, a new AAA survey reveals that nearly a quarter of consumers be...