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PORTVILLE — Shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, Main Street was blocked off and Portville Central School cheerleaders led the 2015 Homecoming Parade from the...

OLEAN — Olean High School kicked off homecoming weekend Friday with a raucous pep rally in the auditorium. Faculty, staff and students celebrated each...

OLEAN — A new Olean High School club is fighting for clean drinking water as a human right. A World with Water, under the guidance of OHS junior Emily...

QUAKER — Parts of the 45-year-old Quaker-Lake Bathhouse in Allegany State Park came crashing down Thursday morning and loaded into trucks bound for a ...

The area industrial sector will celebrate a storied history and look to the future of “Made in America” this October for National Manufacturing Month....

LITTLE VALLEY — Five individuals are now behind bars for allegedly making methamphetamine. Shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, members of the Southern Tie...

A St. Bonaventure professor who has been a prolific writer on Civil War history is at it again. Dr. Chris Mackowski, professor of journalism, has publ...

SALAMANCA —The Seneca Nation of Indians and area child advocacy centers have joined together in the fight against child abuse. Top officials with the ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo established Monday the Common Core Task Force, which will review and possibly revamp the state’s public education curriculum standar...

RED HOUSE — The leaves in Allegany State Park are starting to change colors more quickly. Despite rain Tuesday, the colors, although mostly subtle and...

OLEAN — Olean’s Social Security office, located at 175 N. Union St., resumes normal operations at 9 a.m. Thursday. The facility in Blue Bird Square cl...

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch today beginning at 4 p.m. today through Wednesday morning There’s a 100 percent chance of rain s...

BELMONT — Allegany County’s sales tax rate will remain at 4.5 percent — its sales tax is 8.5 percent total once the state’s 4 percent sales tax is inc...

OLEAN —The Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) centers at Olean, Ellicottville and Belmont are celebrating their golden an...

The weekend brought more changes in Southern Tier foliage, which up until recently was dominated by yellows and browns. A few red and orange colors fr...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope Francis urged hundreds of thousands of the faithful gathered Sunday for the biggest event of his U.S. visit to be open to "mi...

OLEAN — The North Union Street streetscape project is reaching a milestone. Within the next several weeks the ongoing construction work at North Union...

In his historic address to Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis singled out four “great Americans”: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln, as well ...