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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 ...

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...

Voters in most Allegany County villages will go to the polls on Tuesday, but only unopposed races on every ballot. The villages of Andover, Angelica a...

ALBANY (TNS) — Lawmakers could head to the state Capitol as early as today to consider adding another $32,000 to their annual salaries — while placing...

If there’s one clear lesson from the Brittney Griner/Paul Whelan controversy that’s keeping partisans in America’s culture wars all worked up, it’s th...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The video of “Chongqing Superman” has gone viral amidst the explosion of protests across China against the government’s “zero COV...

With Republicans gaining control of the House of Representatives, the federal government again will be “gridlocked,” as critics call it. Democrats sti...

Rep. Joe Sempolinski, R-Canisteo, expressed concern this week after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended COVID-19 vaccin...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives, already strong, appear to...

Time and time again during the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, invoked special executive powers in the name of a hea...

For years, supporters of Donald Trump have alleged a vast news media conspiracy to cover up the alleged corrupt activities of Hunter Biden, President ...

President Biden finally dared to say it last week, declaring in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the “pandemic is over.” Various public-health ...

The Court of Appeals’ refusal to reveal the vote for an acting chief judge is unbefitting an open justice system. Imagine if an election was held and ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Spotted lanternflies don't bite, sting or transmit human diseases. Although considered harmful to some tree species, their degree o...

Show me a bully, I’ll show you a crybaby. Few events have demonstrated the accuracy of that observation like the caterwauling on the right in response...