government

Today voters determine whether New York state should hold a constitutional convention, a vote mandated every 20 years. Initially adopted in 1894, Arti...

BELMONT — All 15 Allegany County Legislature offices are subject to change every four years. For Tuesday’s 2018 balloting, however, nine of the 15 slo...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The face of the Syrian refugee crisis is a mother sitting in the cold on a curb with a baby in her arms, said Father Michael Calabri...

ALBANY (AP) — Critics are throwing shade at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pricey plan to install high-tech, color-changing lights on New York City's bridges, qu...

Government doesn’t always work as it’s intended to, and there’s columns in newspapers across the country every day addressing it. But it’s worth point...

If you want a heartening example of democratization in action in the Middle East/North Africa, look no further than the successful formation last week...

I’m a little ashamed of myself. When I read about village elections throughout our region, I’m sorry to say I wasn’t even aware that an election was c...

OLEAN — Though it’s not required by law — more so strongly suggested by the state comptroller — a fund balance policy may soon become reality in the c...

After a woman at Rep. Tom Reed’s town hall Saturday asked the congressman why he recently voted to allow states to deny federal funds for Planned Pare...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Potter County Commissioners have adopted a resolution pledging to reduce the number of incarcerated individuals suffering from ment...

Imagine that the government, instead of distributing food stamps, wrote checks to grocery stores to reimburse them for giving stuff away. Now imagine ...

Any U.S. senator who votes to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education should be jammed into a burn barrel and launched into the Potomac River. D...

OLEAN — City lawmakers soon to draft the 2017-18 budget may adopt an official accounting principle to govern its fund balance. Currently, there’s no l...

The motto of the U.S. Navy’s Construction Force — known as the “Seabees” — has been “We Build, We Fight” for the past 75 years. Retired Master Chief P...

ALBANY (AP) — Free state college tuition for middle-class students, an expanded child care tax credit and $1 billion in new spending on public schools...

CUBA — A Friendship resident is accusing the Cuba town supervisor of posting “hate speech” aimed at President Barack Obama on his Facebook page. Pat C...

F rom police rounding up Olean’s aldermen to the first American Christmas during World War II, from the city government’s first “computer” to a specia...

(TNS) We’re all familiar with “pleading the Fifth” — the privilege against self-incrimination. But there’s a lot more to the Fifth Amendment than that...