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ALBANY (TNS) — New year, more tolls. Tolls on the New York State Thruway increased Monday by 5%, months after the New York State Thruway Authority Boa...

In recent weeks, Congress has stripped a senator of his committee chairmanship pending a bribery investigation, expelled a House member for egregious ...

Beyond the top stories of 2023, many other stories made the headlines. Here's a look at the honorable mentions in our community this past year. The le...

WELLSVILLE — The last meeting of 2023 for the Wellsville Village Board dealt with future firefighters and the selling of police vehicles. The agenda c...

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ALBANY (TNS) — The State Legislature may be left to consider whether to adopt congressional boundaries that are very similar to the ones already in pl...

WELLSVILLE — The Wellsville town supervisor still expects to welcome the opening of a new, if not smaller, Quicklee’s gas station and convenience stor...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York is seven months and nearly $2 billion into a state of emergency in the ongoing migrant crisis. And with no change at the feder...

Israel faces increasing pressure from the usual suspects to stand down in its war with Hamas. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently noted, ...

All we want for Christmas is a functional state ethics enforcement body, instead of one trapped in legal limbo While editorial boards are definitely i...

SALAMANCA — Kylee Johnson, chair of the City of Salamanca Fire Commission, has announced the cancelation of the commission’s regular meeting for Janua...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation that would have widened the net of eligible campaign contributions for matching public funds under...

Four more years of a Trump presidency would take an enormous toll on America and its democracy. Polling continues to trend in Donald Trump’s direction...

OLEAN — Thousands of local water service lines are among those statewide to be cataloged and slated for removal due to lead concerns. Earlier this mon...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A childhood fascination led Stephen Green down an almost inevitable path to becoming the founder, president and CEO of the Eliot Ne...

Cattaraugus County has petitioned the New York State Board on Electric Generation and the Environment for a rehearing to reconsider its ruling waiving...

ALBANY — New York’s governor vetoed a bill just before Christmas that would have banned noncompete agreements, which restrict workers’ ability to leav...

ALBANY (TNS) — An attempt by a Democrat state lawmaker to block former President Donald J. Trump from being on the New York presidential primary ballo...