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Rep. Tom Reed on Tuesday announced health networks and hospitals from the Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Western New York have pledged to work cooper...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — To hear public health experts describe it, defeating the coronavirus is a massive but straightforward problem, difficult but not im...

Lately, my country has caught the attention of the media in the United States for an unexpected reason. As the entire world struggles to manage the sp...

BELMONT — Allegany County joined hundreds of other government agencies in furloughing employees due to COVID-19. On Wednesday, during a Committee of t...

ALBANY (AP) — With New York classrooms facing a cut in state aid of as much as 20 percent, school district leaders are warning that tens of thousands ...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Tuesday he favors a direct payment to state and local governments in the next federal stimulus bill, but that it shouldn’t cov...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County could lose $8 million or more in state revenue due to lower tax receipts resulting from closures due to the coronav...

One piece of conventional wisdom circulating in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary is that the COVID-19 p...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York state has launched a new, improved website to help hundreds of thousands who need to file for unemploymen t benefits. The stat...

NEW YORK — New York is poised to get over 1,100 ventilators from China and Oregon as it scrambles to line up more breathing machines for the sickest c...

Recently we have seen commentary suggesting that COVID-19 is no big deal and that we should not worry. This sends a message that encourages complacenc...

ALBANY — Farmers from Cattaraugus County Farm Bureau returned from Albany this week after visiting with lawmakers to highlight New York Farm Bureau’s ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed a $40 million appropriation that will help the state combat the COVID-19 coronavirus, while also receiving broad p...

DOHA, Qatar — The United States signed a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afgha...

As many local, state and national governments grapple with how to deal with, and prevent, the spread of novel coronavirus, churches that provide commu...

Syracuse Media Group ALBANY (TNS) — A record 4.9 million New Yorkers signed up for coverage through the state health insurance exchange during the ope...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed touts introduction of the Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act in the House Tuesday — a bill he called the “Alternate Green New Deal...

The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation has apparently forgotten, in its 50th anniversary year, that it is a public-service branch...