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ALBANY — Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio joined with fellow members of the Assembly Republican Conference in introducing a childcare plan they say would ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul directed flags on all state buildings to be flown at half-staff beginning at sunrise Monday until interment in honor of New...

SALAMANCA — The Smithsonian Institution recently named Odie Brant Porter, a long-time Seneca Nation advocate and current council member, to the Smiths...

OLEAN — With hundreds of thousands of dollars in delayed aid hurting the city’s general fund balance, Olean officials will ask Cattaraugus County to t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — New York’s Democratic lawmakers didn’t get everything that they wanted out of this year’s redistricting mess, but they did achieve th...

A federal judge who held a veteran investigative reporter in contempt of court for not revealing her confidential sources erred in his decision that t...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the R...

The U.S. government has given $1.2 billion to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency since April 2021, according to a report from OpenTheBooks.com...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s not yet spring, but think ahead to June. Kids will be out of school, and we’ll mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Cour...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County has been awarded nearly $179,000 as part of a state-funded program supporting emergency communication system improv...

To understand the dangers of an overactive administrative state, go back to high school civics class. You learned that the Founding Fathers divided Am...

OLEAN — The desire to offer a tuition-free primary school by Olean Academy Charter School continues with plans for a final application attempt to subm...

Nearly 1.5 million people visited Allegany State Park in 2023 as all state parks, historic sites, campgrounds and trails operated by the New York Stat...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Homelessness set two records in 2023. The increase in homelessness between 2022 and 2023 was the largest ever recorded since the go...

The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $20 billion over the last two years on “refugee and entrant assistance” for those entering the countr...

A U.S. Senate compromise meant to hold back the tide of illegal immigration on the southern border was rejected by U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy on Monday...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A state judge on Monday upheld a law expanding New York’s early voting period to allow widespread balloting by mail, ruling against R...

Budget adoption season is underway at the State Capitol, which means, first, that joint Senate-Assembly public hearings on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024-25...