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The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s bian...

An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...

President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started making quips abo...

Logan O’Connell, attorney at law and an Olean native, was admitted to the New York State Bar in a ceremony on Jan. 15 at the Appellate Division, Fourt...

A newly proposed state mandate causes yet more consternation out of Albany under which the state Fire Prevention and Building Code Council would requi...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's newly installed attorney general, Pam Bondi, went after New York leaders Wednesday over the state's immigration ...

All universities send emails and letters to their alumni in the hopes of securing donations for future students. Members of the House of Representativ...

OLEAN — Twice the paving work is coming to two main corridors this construction season, but at roughly the same price. The Common Council approved cha...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like spoiled children finally told “no” by their parents, bureaucrats and beneficiaries of wasteful government largesse are howling...

OLEAN —The African American Center for Cultural Development is hosting events to mark Black History Month. On Sunday at 2 p.m., the documentary "13th"...

New York Democrats appeared to veer away Monday from controversial legislation that could have kept Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik’s North Countr...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When President Donald Trump announced last week that the United States will take over the war-blasted Gaza Strip , expel its Palest...

I am a Farmersville resident and a non-participating landowner in the Alle-Catt Wind Project. On Dec. 30, the Cattaraugus County Industrial Developmen...

There are just three months left before the implementation of new federal Real ID requirements, leaving millions of Americans who have yet to transiti...

ALBANY (TNS) —Democratsin the state Legislature have introduced a bill that would allow the governor to hit the pause button on special elections — a ...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The last series of tax breaks have been secured to build the $619 million Alle-Catt wind project. The Cattaraugus County Industrial De...

DEAR RUSTY: Why were the Social Security funds moved from the Social Security account to the General Fund with the government? Is it not then called a...

Almost 300 local elected positions will be on ballots across the region this November. More than 130 county- and municipal-level posts will be up for ...