finance

SALAMANCA — The Seneca Nation says that an arbitration panel’s order that the Nation pay $225.5 million in held-back casino revenues to the state amou...

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...

The Seneca Nation has been ordered to pay New York state $225.8 million in back casino revenue sharing payments it has withheld over the past three ye...

OLEAN — Average homeowners can expect a single-digit increase in their city property taxes on June 1. In a 15-minute meeting Wednesday afternoon, the ...

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 ...

OLEAN — Officials hope to use a special meeting today to iron out just how much city property taxes will go up in June. The Common Council is set to m...

OLEAN — Olean High School junior Elyse Graham was tasked with a different kind of assignment Tuesday: stretch she and her spouse’s $4,100 monthly hous...

OLEAN — Olean now boasts the only Friendly’s in Western New York. The Massachusetts-based restaurant chain abruptly closed 23 locations across the Nor...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Office of Real Property Tax Services is partnering with a half dozen towns to provide assessing services after ...

OLEAN — As the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation marks its 25th year, it is looking back on some of its most important milestones. One of those ...

OLEAN — The first in a string of park-related projects kicked off this week. Mayor Bill Aiello said site work began on the $1.25 million Lincoln Park ...

OLEAN — Tim Finan said Olean General Hospital has the community’s best interest in mind when making tough decisions. OGH and Bradford (Pa.) Regional M...

OLEAN — As a deadline approaches, city officials continue to hammer out the next budget agreement. The Common Council’s finance committee met Tuesday ...

ALBANY — Assemblyman Joseph Giglio described the new $175.5 billion state budget Tuesday with two words: disappointing and disturbing. “It’s very bad,...

SALAMANCA — Like other school districts across the state, Salamanca expects to finalize its budget for the upcoming fiscal year now that aid figures h...

LITTLE VALLEY — As the $175.5 billion New York state budget passed over the weekend, Cattaraugus County Administrator Jack Searles mulled its impact o...

I’ve learned this week that sometimes it takes a bit of determination, maybe even tenacity for the task, to get to a desired goal. In a previous colum...

OLEAN — Trepidation over the African American Center for Cultural Development’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative project has led nearly half of the ...