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President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, will face a host of pandemic-related challenges that have disproportionat...

No one will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being overly careful in his exercise of his pardon power. So, it makes sense that advocates of Edwar...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed continued to push for a bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 relief package Wednesday as negotiations remained hung up over state and l...

We’ve never seen anything like it, have we — some state governments not just advising people on how to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but dic...

Next week, Americans will confront how to celebrate a national holiday that is for many people all about togetherness amid a pandemic that demands tha...

Ronald Reagan said once, “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Update that for modern times as...

WASHINGTON — Voters in the U.S. presidential election faced a public health crisis and a wounded economy, but neither candidate emerged as the clear c...

In light of increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has designated certain areas as “red zones.” Those living in the...

ALBANY (AP) — New York’s county governments, citing soaring expenses from responding to the coronavirus epidemic, are pleading with the Cuomo administ...

ALBANY — The state continues to confront coronaviru s clusters in downstate New York, even as the positive-test rate was well below 1% in several Upst...

BUFFALO — A Canadian woman charged with making threats against President Donald Trump by mailing a package containing ricin to the White House was ord...

The wildfires in the West have burned up millions of acres, taken dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, cost enormous amounts of money to com...

OLEAN — Local counties saw sales tax revenues slip again in August, according to state officials. The Office of the State Comptroller reported Thursda...

Did an employee at Walmart in Bradford test positive for COVID-19, or is it just another rumor? That question remained unanswered as of Wednesday. An ...

CANANDAIGUA (TNS) — Suppose the power of New York’s governor was reduced and instead rivaled that of the Queen of England — basically a figurehead. Th...

We had hoped the scenes in downtown Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and other cities were not emblematic of the state of the nation in general. ...

We had hoped the scenes in downtown Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin and other cities were not emblematic of the state of the nation in general. L...

ALBANY (TNS ) — Labor union leaders joined Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday to pen a letter to New York’s congressional delegates urging them to provide...