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BUFFALO — Nearly $200,000 was awarded to eight organizations and projects in the final round of Springboard, a new regional, innovative rapid prize co...

DEAR RUSTY: I am past my Social Security full retirement age, and I am still working. I am married and we file our income tax jointly. My husband is 6...

The State of New York has spent $40 million on its County-Wide Shared Service Initiative, which appears to exist for the explicit purpose of eliminati...

LITTLE VALLEY — CCB, the locally owned and operated independent community bank headquartered in Little Valley, has announced the addition of Nina Gust...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The degrowth movement, which had a moment a few years ago, is over — and not a moment too soon. As nations in Europe and North Americ...

ALBANY — Plans to build a milk-processing facility in Monroe County were announced last year to great fanfare but with few details on how such an ener...

WEST VALLEY — The West Valley Chamber of Commerce hosted its first-ever business and networking event on Oct. 17. This free event, “Building Businesse...

America’s 50 state governments will need an extra $811 billion to pay off their current debt, according to the annual “ State of the States ” report f...

A new report found that visitors to New York’s state park system generated nearly $6 billion in sales and boosted the state’s gross domestic product b...

Of the $4.5 trillion the U.S. spends on health care every year, the largest proportion — almost a third — goes to hospitals. The cost of hospital serv...

ALBANY — New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul received a failing grade on fiscal restraint from a libertarian think-tank, which criticized her for ...

(Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles on the members of the 2024 Laine Business Accelerator cohort .) If what one person doesn’t w...

For years, free-market think tanks such as theCato Instituteand theFraser Institutehave emphasized the link between economic freedom and prosperity. T...

DEAR RUSTY: I just turned 69 years old in August and am still working full-time. I signed up for Medicare Part A but, it is my secondary insurance bec...

New York state is finalizing new regulations that will give more flexibility regarding the state’s Advanced Clean Truck goals, which would have requir...

ALFRED — Alfred State College will receive nearly $2 million through the Appalachian Regional Commission to expand truck and diesel and heavy equipmen...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Social Security revealed plans for 2025 — including raising the amount of money that you can be taxed on each year. Average wages sub...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation announces the formal launch of the Cattaraugus Nonprofit Hub, a countywide initiative designed to ...