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ALBANY (TNS) — Nonprofit associations that support New Yorkers with developmental disabilities say their services face deep cuts along with the potent...

When Andrew Jackson disagreed with a decision of the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, he reportedly said, “John Marshall has made his decision. Now let ...

Open records are important or they aren’t. The public has a right to an accountable government or they don’t. It really isn’t a complicated issue. Gov...

New York State County Executives Association members express the dire need for state and local government aid in a new coronavirus relief bill — even ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that President Trump is not sending federal agents to New York City. The president will discuss the deployment of agen...

A new poll finds 62% of New Yorkers think that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is still to come, while only 27% think that the worst is over. A ...

BUFFALO (AP) — Federal prosecutors dropped charges against the driver of a commercial truck found to contain nearly 9,500 pounds of marijuana as it en...

ALBANY (TNS ) — Police reform advocates celebrated the repeal this month of a 44-year-old la w that shielded police disciplinary records from the publ...

ALBANY — Up to 25 people can gather in parts of New York that have entered the third phase of reopening under a revised plan the governor announced Mo...

LITTLE VALLEY — The coronavirus pandemic has put a big dent in Cattaraugus County’s revenue. With New York state looking at a $13 billion budget short...

Memorial Day 2020 may be celebrated differently than in years past. Parades will be minimal, if held at all, picnics will be limited to those at home ...

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...

Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have e...

NEW YORK — With New York “coming down the mountain” of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, there has been increased talk about a po...

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 ...