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Editor's note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated. The city of Olean will receive$25 million in federal funding for its upcoming Connec...

In advance of her upcoming 2025 State of the State Address onJan. 14, Gov.Kathy Hochulis promoting several initiatives intended to address the cost-of...

Change is the ever-present backdrop against which modern managers operate. As business is transformed by technology, workforce dynamics. global shifts...

DEAR RUSTY: I'm 72 years old with 20 years of military service. I am retired collecting Social Security, my military pension and state retirement bene...

NEW YORK (TNS) — New Yorkers will see a series of new laws and policies take effect in 2025. Here's a look at some new laws and policies that will imp...

If I could have one wish granted in the New Year, it would be for be for a return of respect and bipartisanship in Albany to ensure that state governm...

GasBuddy, in its 2025 Fuel Price Outlook, forecasting a third consecutive year of lower gas and diesel prices, projects that the yearly national avera...

In the wake of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent announcement regarding an “inflation refund” plan, Republican state senators George Borrello, Dean Murray an...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” Milton Friedman once said. In other words, don’t blame greed — blame th...

Two area governments received $1 million to help with housing issues thanks to a state grant program. State Office of Community Renewal officials anno...

DEAR RUSTY: My wife will reach her full Social Security benefit at 66.5 years of age which is just under 2 years away for her now. If she were to begi...

The thrill of opening Christmas presents — and of giving them — is past. Here’s hoping most gifts given and received hit the mark. But in the case of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochulsigned a law to expand access to theHome Energy Assistance Program(HEAP) and help more seniors enroll in heating aid. The legislation...

OLEAN — Community Bank announces the promotion of Connor Nolan of Allegany to assistant director of consumer and mortgage ending. In his new position,...

Gov. Hochul on Saturday signed an innocuous-sounding bill to “regulate the use of automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence techni...

News that President-elect Donald Trump’s team wants to hack away at the forbidding tangle ofU.S.bank regulation is welcome in the abstract. In practic...

A year into the merger of the United Way organizations serving Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, the executive director believes the UW has found its...

Local unemployment rose in November, but with lower rates than a year ago according to state officials. The state Department of Labor this week report...