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ALBANY (TNS) — The federal government advised opening COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to millions more people in the last week, but didn’t follow up with...

NEW YORK — New Yorkers battered by months of isolation and worry eagerly snapped up limited chances to get the COVID-19 vaccine as the state began its...

In what Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office called “a Christmas wish answered,” the federal government has ordered that all travelers from the United Kingdom m...

As COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising daily in New York, the governor says a federal vaccination plan has “gross omissions” t...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York taxpayers get less bang for their buck on federal taxes than almost any other state in the nation, according to a new report f...

ALBANY (TNS) — The federal government sent New York and other states a “data sharing agreement” Monday to be used to distribute an eventual COVID-19 v...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Thursday announced a new smartphone app is available that will tell New Yorkers if they have been exposed to someone who...

ALBANY (TNS ) — New York will conduct its own review of any COVID-19 vaccine approved by the federal government before the vaccines are released in th...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York was approved late Monday by the federal government for a $300 a week supplemental payment for unemployed residents. The state ...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County received word Tuesday of a positive COVID-19 test of a man from the southeast part of the county — three weeks after the te...

ALBANY (TNS ) — The economic shutdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus has left New York facing a $30 billion deficit over the next two years, an...

In Washington and on Wall Street, hopes for full social and economic recovery from the pandemic now hinge on the development of a coronavirus vaccine....

NIAGARA FALLS (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, says the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has included language in the 2021...

TORONTO — The Blue Jays won’t play their home games in Toronto this year because Canada’s government doesn’t think it’s safe for players to travel bac...

ALBANY (TNS ) — New York’s success in slowing the spread of the coronavirus shows the federal government and other states are making mistakes in the a...

ALBANY (TNS ) — Following a late-morning meeting with President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo railed against federal lawmakers wh...

ALBANY — As calls grow nationwide for mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homes, New York facilities are sounding alarms about the state’s ambiti...

April, wrote a poet, is the cruelest month. So it was in New York — and throughout America — as we weathered a viral storm and its concomitant carnage...