kevin watkins

Cattaraugus County’s Amish community appears to be largely ignoring social distancing guidelines and Gov. Cuomo’s executive orders to stay home during...

OLEAN — As the Cattaraugus County Health Department ramps up testing this week, a 30th county resident has tested positive for COVID-19. In a partners...

OLEAN — The number of Cattaraugus County residents with positive COVID-19 tests doubled to 26 individuals between Thursday and Sunday. Half of the cas...

OLEAN — An Olean General Hospital staffer has tested positive for COVID-19, while two more Cattaraugus County residents were reported with positive te...

OLEAN — The slow, but steady uptick in the number of Cattaraugus County residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 continued Thursday as a 13th p...

OLEAN — Two more Cattaraugus County residents have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, increasing the total to 12. Four county residents are now h...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County’s top health official enthusiastically endorses the Centers for Disease Control’s recommendation over the weekend that U.S....

Cattaraugus County’s positive COVID-19 cases inch upward, with an additional case bringing the number of confirmed infected persons on Wednesday to se...

OLEAN — An 80-year-old man from the southeastern part of Cattaraugus County became the county’s eighth confirmed COVID-19 case. The county’s first cas...

Should residents of Allegany and Cattaraugus counties be concerned over reports that Buffalo-area residents are flocking to Southern Tier hunting camp...

The number of Cattaraugus County residents with confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased to five over the weekend. After reporting two cases Friday, as o...

OLEAN — Olean General Hospital is treating its first two patients to test positive for COVID-19. The first patient was admitted Wednesday and a positi...

LITTLE VALLEY — Amid COVID-19 concerns, Cattaraugus County lawmakers kept their social distance Wednesday by meeting in two separate locations and vid...

Before Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a “pause” Friday, closing nonessential businesses and ordering people to stay in their homes to slow the spread of C...

LITTLE VALLEY — As of Monday afternoon, Cattaraugus County still has not seen any confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus. Allegany and Erie counties ha...

Two cases of COVID-19 infection were confirmed Sunday in Allegany County, the first such cases reported in either Allegany or Cattaraugus counties. Th...

OLEAN — The number of people under quarantine for possible exposure to COVID-19 in Cattaraugus County grew by two on Wednesday — and could grow by fiv...

OLEAN — Based on a large number of repeat violations of the state Sanitary Code at Lakeview Chinese Restaurant, on West State Road, Allegany, the Catt...