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LITTLE VALLEY —Cattaraugus County lawmakers re-elected Olean Republican James J. Snyder as County Legislature chairman during a reorganization meeting...

A new year — 2019 — is right around the corner. It’s likely that few will be sorry to see 2018 recede in the rearview mirror, but leaving the year beh...

(TNS) An enduring Washington truth: When a politician uses multiple clauses in a sentence, the opening words are camouflage soon to be contradicted by...

Almost two years into Donald Trump's presidency, it is high time to take stock of the decisions that he has made. Trump has, by almost all accounts, p...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Wednesday he hoped a government shutdown later this month can be avoided. A partial government shutdown on Friday, the third s...

“Diversity,” as defined by Webster, is “an inclusion of different types of people (races, genders); composed of different elements.” Over the decades ...

Lost in the hail of barbs and recriminations that the talking heads unleash on President Trump on a daily basis is the fact that he recently made a br...

Democrats on the Problem Solvers Caucus struck a deal Wednesday on House rules changes that could clear a path for the election of Nancy Pelosi as spe...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a $243.3 million county budget for 2019. It carries a tax levy, o...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed is taking heat from some of his House Republican colleagues for his offer to vote for Democrat Nancy Pelosi for speaker on the cond...

LITTLE VALLEY — Few Cattaraugus County legislators expect any more changes in the record $243.3 million county budget for 2019. Changes so far have be...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed says the Problem Solvers Caucus, which he co-chairs, could have a role in the election of the next Speaker of the House. Reed was i...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Legislature’s Finance Committee was about to approve the $243.3 million 2019 county budget Thursday night when ...

History will record that, by narrowly taking control of the House of Representatives in 2018, the Democrats avoided what could have been a catastrophi...

State Sen. Catharine M. Young is afraid Democratic control of the State Senate will be very detrimental to Upstate counties. After Tuesday’s elections...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed announced Wednesday that he was retiring the “extreme Ithaca liberal” moniker he has used to label opponents in his three most rece...

OLEAN — Incumbents reigned Tuesday in city Common Council races. All three incumbents seeking re-election on Tuesday for new two-year terms — Linda Wi...

Assemblyman Joseph Giglio, R-Gowanda, is busy this election season even though he’s unopposed for re-election. “I haven’t had any opposition for the l...