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ALBANY — New York’s new state health commissioner stepped into the role Wednesday, at a time when COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise in the sta...

ALBANY — While state Sen. George Borrello believes a state ethics panel did the right thing earlier this week in voting to rescind approval of the for...

OLEAN — There were 16 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, while nearly 32,200 people have completed their vaccine series, the Cattaraugus County Health De...

We never blamed Gov. Cuomo for COVID’s death toll in New York. The virus has claimed more than 50,000 lives, including what we now know to be more tha...

ALBANY (TNS) — The governor’s fellow Democrats, who control both houses in the Legislature, continued to hold discussions throughout the weekend about...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York will follow updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention on quarantines for fully vaccinated individuals...

ALBANY (TNS) — Downstate attorneys and legal experts are suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state health commissioner Howard Zucker for their failure to incl...

ALBANY (TNS) — When Letitia James was elected with Andrew Cuomo’s backing, I assumed she wouldn’t be willing to ruffle the governor’s feathers or look...

ALBANY (TNS) — A day after a report criticized his administration for undercounting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said attacks o...

ALBANY — New York is making an exception to its restrictions on large gatherings to allow about 6,700 fans to attend a Buffalo Bills home playoff game...

ALBANY (TNS) — Doctors, nurses and other health care providers and institutions that fraudulently jump the coronavirus vaccine line will face a $1 mil...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police and health officials were probing Saturday whether an Orange County health care provider violated state guidelines in the distr...

ALBANY (TNS) — With the first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine expected to arrive in New York this weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday detail...

ALBANY (TNS ) — New York nursing homes that have gone 14 days without a coronavirus case can reopen for limited visitation, the state Department of He...

ALBANY (TNS) — An independent investigation of the state’s nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic is not needed, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said...

ALBANY — Democratic and Republican state lawmakers grilled New York’s top health official Monday about the steep, though ultimately unknown, death tol...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County COVID-19 cases jumped by four on Friday as nursing homes have been given the go-ahead to begin allowing visitors ag...

While the Cuomo administration insists that nursing home workers spread COVID-19 in care facilities, Republicans renewed calls for independent investi...