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ELLICOTTVILLE — When a person is given an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, he or she has some serious considerations to review with family members or friends. A...

WELLSVILLE — New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas on Wednesday announced the start of construction on a $10.3 m...

OLEAN — The documentary film “Dark Money” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Gallery Room of the Olean Public Library, 134 N. Second St. The ...

OLEAN — The hundreds of cigarette butts, wrappers and e-cigarette waste in city parks would be a thing of the past if a school group had its way. The ...

Readers of State & Union should be familiar with the myriad homefront efforts to support the troops and industry during World War II — from bond drive...

(TNS) HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and actress Cynthia Nixon engaged in a feisty, heated and often-personal debate Wednesday in which ...

OLEAN — Hoping for a model to use, regional development officials made a trip to Olean on Monday to see the city’s downtown revitalization. The Wester...

(TNS) Those who advocate regime change in Iran are of varied political persuasions — some are monarchists, some are Marxists, and some are just fed up...

Dear Sgt. Hosbrook, though you are my ancestor, I thought it only fitting and proper to address you by your rank and title in that great war for indep...

OLEAN — A listening session and a garden construction blitz will be the first major efforts by a group aiming to revitalize South Olean. Under the ban...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Old Supervisors Building on Erie Street is about to meet the wrecking ball. The historic building, owned jointly by the town and v...

It is interesting to read the views of anyone who suggests that oppression and injustice are being carried out by “socialist” societies, given the fac...

What do you call a hypocritical legislative body that passes a freedom of information law and then exempts itself from that very law. Why, obviously, ...

Complaining about the government is our national blood sport. Decades of conditioning by cable “news” networks, where Jerry Springer-style squabbling ...

From rallying the community for the war effort to a visit of one of the greats of baseball, from an outcry over school mergers to marking 100 years as...

The conviction of a former top aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo spurred fresh demands to address Albany’s culture of backroom dealing Wednesday — ...

(TNS) Here’s an exquisite potential irony for you: The most bellicose president of modern times negotiates nuclear detente on the Korean Peninsula aft...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's...