here_and_now

In the spring of 1951, a group of the former Olean High School football squad gathered to plan a football reunion of the 1941-42 members. What resulte...

Around 300 people filled the Premier Banquet Center on Thursday evening to recognize the hard work of one of the area’s top CEOs as well as a fixture ...

LITTLE VALLEY — A tentative $228.6 million Cattaraugus County budget for 2016 was released Wednesday by county Administrator Jack Searles. As is custo...

OLEAN — The four-way stop at Wayne and North First Streets is out, but the three-way stop at Front Street and Seneca Avenue is in. The Olean Common Co...

SALAMANCA (AP) — The Seneca Indian Nation's next business venture could be medical marijuana. Members of the western New York tribe approved a referen...

OLEAN — The Olean area set a record high temperature for Nov. 4 this afternoon. The temp measured at 3 p.m. at the Olean Wastewater Treatment Plant, t...

We sometimes overlook what a great resource the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University is for periodic displays of art and ...

ALBANY — New York voters elected five new state lawmakers Tuesday in special elections — three of whom will replace politicians convicted of corruptio...

ALBANY (AP) — Several of New York state's largest and most influential business groups are coming together to fight Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for a $15...

LITTLE VALLEY — Republicans won 12 of the 17 seats on the newly redistricted Cattaraugus County Legislature, according to unofficial voting results ta...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Clerk’s race has been declared too close to call, with Democrat Alan Bernstein of Olean leading Republican Mich...

Election Day in Allegany County featured relatively few contested races. In Genesee, the county’s lone town supervisor decision, incumbent Donald Jord...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers offered a federal jury on Tuesday two starkly different portrayals of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — one as...

Several folks reached out to us after reading Wednesday’s edition of State and Union, “Remember Window Shopping ‘Uptown’” — mostly to let us know abou...

OLEAN — The scene inside the Olean Intermediate Middle School (OIMS) large group instruction room Monday looked something like a Food Network show. Hi...

LIMESTONE — As Kathy Henry sat in front of the Cow Palace on Monday and explained why she had to close her business, two customers pulled up and asked...

FRIENDSHIP — A Friendship man was stabbed in the early morning Sunday during an altercation near Sawyer Avenue, New York State Police reported Monday....

OLEAN — Fire investigators are still looking at the cause of a blaze that destroyed an unoccupied Delaware Avenue house Saturday night. Firefighters w...