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LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Board of Elections is offering extended hours during the two weeks prior to the Nov. 5 general election, Electi...

WELLSVILLE — The village board has planned a public hearing concerning residents keeping chickens. The chicken hearing is set for 5:30 p.m. Nov. 12 af...

CUBA — The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties invites all to a screening of “On the Basis of Sex,” rated PG-13, at 5:30 p.m. ...

LEWIS RUN, Pa. — In his long and distinguished career on the bench, retired McKean County Judge John M. Cleland, in his words, “absolutely avoided pol...

A law moving many town and county elections in New York to even-numbered years to align them with state and federal races was struck down by a state j...

The Biden-Harris administration is set to eclipse the $1 trillion mark in improper payments, a new record for wasted money in a four-year term, accord...

BERKELEY, Calif. (TNS) — What role, if any, will the Supreme Court play in the November presidential election? That is the crucial, unknowable questio...

I am a lifelong registered Democrat. I don’t recall choosing that party: my parents most likely “gave” it to me. Actually, because I was born white, C...

ALBANY (TNS) — Some supporters of a ballot proposal in New York this year say it would codify abortion laws in the state constitution, while many oppo...

DEAR RUSTY: I claimed Social Security at 70. My wife claimed her own SS at 62, and her earnings were significantly lower than mine. I understand my wi...

Cattaraugus and Allegany counties will each receive more than $172,000 to help offset costs of developing plans to prevent domestic terrorism. The gra...

OLEAN — One million dollars in aid for the city’s water treatment plant passed one chamber of Congress this summer, while $2 million more is already o...

NEW YORK — It wasn’t a shock to many Black New Yorkers that Mayor Eric Adams has surrounded himself with African American civil rights leaders, clergy...

Next month, the votes of New Yorkers may possibly decide which party controls the House of Representatives for the 119th U.S. Congress. The margin bet...

WELLSVILLE — Rex Olson, a longtime Wellsville Central School Board Education member, announced his resignation recently and it was officially accepted...

Recently I noted how the latest statewide poll from the Siena College Research Institute included a finding that less than one-third of New Yorkers th...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The presidential campaign produced plenty of noise last week, but the race still appears mired in a virtual electoral-college tie. ...

The State of New York has spent $25.4 million to defend former Gov. Andrew Cuomo from sexual harassment lawsuits and criminal investigations over the ...