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U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy has introduced the Grape Research and Protection Expansion Act — the GRAPE Act — aiming to provide comprehensive crop insura...

ALBANY (TNS) — A payroll tax credit for local news outlets was included in New York’s budget passed this past weekend in an effort to keep publication...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Lawsuits, Medicare inspection reports and allegations of unpaid employees are painting a troubling picture of Lakeview Healthcare, a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday proposed a plan to broadly wipe out some New Yorkers’ out-of-pocket insurance co-payments for insulin, the ubiquitous but...

ALBANY (TNS) — Despite efforts by the state Department of Health to inform the public that the pandemic-related pause in Medicaid eligibility checks i...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The latest Consumer Price Index report showed inflation slowing in October, due in part to a supposed 34% drop in the cost of healt...

State officials are cautioning New Yorkers about health insurance enrollment scams as the 2024 enrollment through the NY State of Health is underway. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear an appeal from the National Rifle Association over comments from a former New York st...

BELMONT — A farm disaster preparation program aims to help farmers plan for disasters while also helping with insurance costs. The Cornell Cooperative...

OLEAN — Sharon Boll of Petruzzi Insurance Agency has received Erie Insurance Company’s 2023 Quality Customer Service Representative Award. Boll was se...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Department of Health is offering immunization and flu shot shot clinics at several sites during the next few weeks. Depa...

Looking for another reason to be mad at New York’s government? Have we got an outrageous new law for you. Details about the legislation arrived via re...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Drivers across New York are getting enrolled automatically in expanded, more expensive car insurance thanks to a state law that took ...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is supporting the bipartisan National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2023. This legislation woul...

It’s National Safe Boating Week and with Memorial Day weekend coming up, many Western and Central New Yorkers are looking to hit area waterways. AAA W...

ALBANY (TNS) — New Yorkers on publicly funded insurance plans are being targeted in a new scam, with callers demanding they pay hundreds of dollars to...

ALBANY (TNS) — During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of New Yorkers enrolled in Medicaid were shielded from losing access to their health coverage. T...

Two weeks ago we saw a win and a loss for health care. North Carolina became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That’s a...