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ALBANY — This year, for once, state lawmakers’ failure to pass a timely budget could prove to be a stroke of luck. When President Donald Trump rolled ...

ALBANY (TNS) — President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order this week that directs the U.S. attorney general to evaluate state "climate" laws t...

OLEAN — More than 200 demonstrators turned out Saturday in Olean to protest against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, criticizing the ...

SALAMANCA — A man who was detained at an Olean Common Council meeting in March was taken into custody by federal immigration officials this past week....

OLEAN — After a few tweaks, the city’s 2025–26 budget appears to be sailing to a quick approval before the April 15 deadline. Council members in the f...

ALFRED — Alfred State was one of 272 campuses named a Voter Friendly Campus by Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA–Student Affairs Ad...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With 19 months to go before the midterm elections, it’s too early to know what the political environment will be like inNovember 20...

WASHINGTON(TNS)— PresidentDonald Trumplikes to troll Canada. He has been threatening our neighbor to the north with additional tariffs, and he thinks ...

OLEAN — The Olean Common Council continued to fine-tune the 2025–26 city budget during Tuesday’s finance committee meeting in anticipation of tentativ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trumpcame into office with mandates to fix three big problemsJoe Bidenhad failed to address: Out-of-control illegal immigrat...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Did the Trump administration violate the law by flying Venezuelan migrants out of the country as the ACLU battled in court to prev...

PHOENIX — The Democratic base is angry. Not just at President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the "Make America Great Again" movement. Rank-and-file Democ...

OLEAN — A man who was handcuffed and removed from Wednesday’s Common Council meeting by Olean police officers was formally charged after speaking out ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was pulling New York Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the Unit...

In response to Christine Van Horn’s Readers' Turn to Write commentary in the March 22 edition of the Times Herald ( "The sky is falling indeed — on fr...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says New York seniors could soon feel the impacts of cuts to the Social Security Administration by the Trump administration. “...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Board of Education announces Voter Registration Day will be held Tuesday, April 22, in the Superintendent’s Office conferenc...

Democrats were against the filibuster before they were for it. The left continues to rage against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for casting a v...