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NEW YORK — New York is doubling the number of licenses it’s awarding for a first round of legal marijuana shops, regulators announced Thursday, though...

BUFFALO — Mayor Byron Brown on Thursday identified the Buffalo firefighter who died in an explosive fire at a downtown building as a 37-year-old marri...

ALBANY — Medical licensing officials in multiple states are scrambling to stop nurses with fraudulent academic credentials from caring for patients, a...

OLEAN — The largest city property tax hike in almost two decades has gone to the Common Council for consideration. Given to Common Council members ear...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy has joined two other Republican congressional members from New York in seeking to block Gov. Kathy Hochul‘s plan to expand M...

WELLSVILLE — Village trustees have approved a paving schedule that tackles one of the most troublesome and most traveled roads in Wellsville. While th...

ALBANY (TNS) — State Senate Democratic leaders are seeking to close an apparent lobbying loophole for nominations to statewide positions that require ...

NEW YORK — Lolita Jackson was at her 72nd-floor desk in the World Trade Center, feeling like she worked at the top of the world. Then came the boom, a...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello called on Gov. Kathy Hochul restore up to $1 billion in Enhanced Federal Medicaid Percentage (eFMAP) funding for c...

WELLSVILLE — Working together is still the answer to getting Allegany County to share sales tax revenue with its towns and villages. During a District...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For years Joe Biden has told audiences, “This is not your father’s Republican Party.” He’s right. And perhaps nothing better illust...

It’s a bidding war in Albany when it comes to boosting the state’s minimum wage — with the needs of New York’s economy, and of the vast illegal-migran...

If any issue can bring notoriously polarized Washington together across party lines — and should — it is the need to protect America’s children from s...

ALBANY (TNS) — Legislative conversations around changes to New York’s criminal justice system have been dominated in recent years by the measures that...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the federal response to the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a “betrayal...

ALBANY — New York officials gave final approval Wednesday for a measure that will lower the hourly threshold for when farm workers qualify for overtim...

It’s the most radical act President Joe Biden has undertaken that almost no one is talking about. He issued an executive order last week to basically ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When the 1996 presidential campaign approached, Bill Clinton faced an uphill struggle to win a second term. His biggest legislative...