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The State of New York has spent $40 million on its County-Wide Shared Service Initiative, which appears to exist for the explicit purpose of eliminati...

The Allegany County Democratic Committee is coordinating round-trip rides to early voting locations for voters who lack reliable transportation. Alleg...

With the U.S. presidential race as well as state- and county-level races on the ballot, early voting gets underway Saturday at Cattaraugus County’s tw...

On the back of your ballot in New York state is “Proposal number one, an amendment. It’s presented as an “Amendment to Protect Against Unequal Treatme...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, recently said that he thinks that the Electoral College “needs ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Ah, autumn: the season of pumpkin-spice everything, falling leaves and poll derangement syndrome. These days, I wake up, log in an...

BELMONT — While voters may be concerned about the safety of their ballots in the upcoming election, Allegany County elections officials say new voting...

ALBANY — New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul received a failing grade on fiscal restraint from a libertarian think-tank, which criticized her for ...

ALBANY — Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abo...

ALBANY (TNS) — Tens of millions of dollars in outside money are supercharging New York’s five tightest congressional races as Democrats and Republican...

LITTLE VALLEY — A leader at the Cattaraugus County Board of Elections for 20 years, Kevin Burleson has been reappointed Democratic election commission...

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...

Speaker after speaker in Olean’s Lincoln Park addressed what they believe is the urgency regarding the presidential election that will be decided in a...

This is a very crucial election, with two candidates as opposites. Kamala Harris has demonstrated a long-standing career of integrity, honesty and com...

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...