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WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency in a funeral at...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Legislature unanimously re-elected Andrew Burr of Gowanda as chairman Wednesday, the start of a new year for th...

WASHINGTON(TNS) — By the standard President Joe Biden set himself, the core purpose he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his ...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy is eager to get started — working in a Republican-controlled Congress — on the GOP agenda with President-elect Donald Trump,...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov.Kathy Hochulisn't the only one to blame for the heinous congestion pricing tax that was set to go into effect on midnight Sunday....

On Friday, PresidentJoe Bidenannounced he was blocking the purchase ofU.S.Steel by Japanese steelmakerNippon Steelon dubious economic and national sec...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting...

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...

BATAVIA — History has been made in Western New York as the first woman in the 107-year history of the New York State Police has taken over as troop co...

Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign Affairs website to prais...

OLEAN — It is a year to “pivot to solutions” amid issues over taxes, crime and infrastructure, the city’s chief executive said Thursday. Mayor Bill Ai...

ALBANY — New York's attorney general appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to investigate the death of a man who was beaten by guards at a state pri...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Common Council and mayor were sworn in for the 2025–26 term Wednesday morning during a ceremony in the city courtroom. Altho...

He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdra...

Congress allocated at least $516 billion for federal programs with expired authorizations in fiscal year 2024, and likely far more, according to the C...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after o...

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...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you stacked up all of Donald Trump’s legal bills since his election in 2016, they’d reach Mars beforeElon Muskdoes. He’s paying...