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The owner of seven unlicensed cannabis shops in New York whose promotions included an Easter egg hunt has been fined more than $15 million after state...

SALAMANCA — Seneca Gaming Corporation Thursday announced the company’s Board of Directors selected officers for 2024-25 at its recent annual meeting. ...

Other districts in Allegany and Cattaraugus counties reported their budgets passed in Tuesday’s statewide school votes and announced winners of their ...

ALBANY — The New York state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to explicitly allow evidence of prior sexual offenses in sex crimes cases, a move to cha...

Several police departments and the two sheriff’s offices in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties will collectively receive more than $900,000 in funding ...

A recent court ruling highlights the dangers of forcing taxpayers to fund political campaigns. Progressives pushing such schemes under the guise of el...

Playing the Veepstakes guessing game is often a losing one for analysts. Vice-presidential selection is ultimately a highly personal choice, and it is...

ALBANY — New York can continue to require companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions, the state’s highest court rule...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Credit card late fees should be capped at $8, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urges, after the U.S. Supreme Court found the fede...

Congressman Nick Langworthy says numerous policy priorities that benefit farmers in Western New York are included in the House Committee on Agricultur...

OLEAN — The opportunity to pass a $56.17 million budget with a 1% increase in the tax levy will be presented to voters of the Olean City School Distri...

OLEAN — Dozens of juniors and seniors from three counties studying criminal justice will attend the annual Cop Camp job fair Wednesday at the William ...

SALAMANCA — Those who venture out to the polls within the Salamanca City Central School District on Tuesday will vote for candidates for the two open ...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy voted Wednesday to pass the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, with the final House version including his amendment to maintai...

Local municipalities saw mixed sales tax receipts in April, the state’s fiscal watchdog reported this week. The Office of the State Comptroller report...

A measure sponsored by state Sen. George Borrello that would prohibit what he called the “fraud-prone” practice of ballot harvesting has advanced thro...

Democrats calm themselves over President Joe Biden’s miserable poll numbers by noting that the election remains months away, an eternity in politics. ...

A race for the Democratic candidate for Ward 5 alderman in the City of Salamanca as well as town justice and councilman races in Farmersville highligh...