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Acting Cattaraugus County Sheriff Eric Butler has been nominated as the Republican candidate to seek a full term in the post in the Nov. 5 election. C...

ALBANY (TNS) — A nine-member commission has the next year to study how reparations could be offered to descendants of enslaved people inNew York. The ...

DEAR RUSTY: I’ve been told that members of Congress do not have Social Security deducted from their pay; Additionally, that their retirement dollars c...

The United States has become the largest market in the world, and at the same time it delivers the highest standard of living to its citizens compared...

DETROIT (TNS) — President Joe Biden is treating the Constitution as a mere suggestion in calling for sweeping changes to the United States Supreme Cou...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation Thursday reaffirming that presidents do not have immunity for criminal action...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Board of Elections, looking to hire election workers for several areas over the next year, has scheduled poll i...

NEW YORK — Two months after his felony conviction, Donald Trump still isn’t allowed to say everything he wants about his historic hush money criminal ...

A former clerk-treasurer of the village of Addison in Steuben County will be sentenced to serve three to nine years in state prison, pay full restitut...

Save the date. Be sure to write down Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, the date for the general election, on your calendar. Cast your votes between the hours of ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Conventional wisdom among political consultants says that a presidential candidate’s choice of a running mate has a marginal impact o...

ALBANY — New York’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a Republican challenge of a law that allows any registered voter to cast a mail-in ballot...

ALBANY — A proposed amendment to New York’s Constitution that’s intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any m...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — We know Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, has set an Aug. 7 deadline to announce a running mate. The qu...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Smart Republicans could see a day like this coming — and tried mightily to prevent it — back in 2010. That was the year Kamala Har...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-23rd District, wants the United States to revoke the student visas of anyone involved in activity that supports foreign t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s abrupt withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race raised more questions than it provided answers. Here are so...

LITTLE VALLEY — County lawmakers have condemned the New York State Board of Parole, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state officials for their role in Edwa...