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ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello said Thursday that New York Democratic lawmakers have taken a “head-in-the-sand approach” in building their new bu...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Some New York state lawmakers are calling for reforms after an audit found some of the various tax credits the state grants aren’t ne...

OLEAN — The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties invites area residents to step out for Equal Rights at an 11 a.m., March 23, W...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Making Agricultural Products Locally Essential (MAPLE) Act to support the maple industr...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Recently released government data hammered home what we have known for at least a year: A national housing shortage, not broad-base...

The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties invites area residents to step out for Equal Rights at an 11 a.m. on March 23, 2024 Wa...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hosp...

ALBANY — Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio joined with fellow members of the Assembly Republican Conference in introducing a childcare plan they say would ...

The April 1 deadline for enacting a new state budget is fast approaching and the Democratic majorities in the Senate and Assembly are adopting their r...

From perpetual motion cons and a father fighting to keep his child in America to a new maternity wing at Olean General Hospital, from a rough time for...

ALBANY (TNS) — After stalling for nearly 10 years, advocates and lawmakers are once again hoping this will be the year a bill passes allowing the term...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy called President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday “nothing more than a divisive campaign speech” while top De...

WASHINGTON— President Joe Biden turned his State of the Union speech Thursday night into an animated argument for a second term as he laced into GOP f...

Former President Donald Trump’s victory in the Supreme Court 14th Amendment case, together with delay and disorder in the criminal cases against him, ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I have spent several days reading coverage of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized extrauterine embyros a...

ALBANY — The state Senate on Monday rejected a call to rescind the state’s electric school bus mandates and replace them with a feasibility study. Sta...

NEW YORK (TNS) — New York’s Democratic lawmakers didn’t get everything that they wanted out of this year’s redistricting mess, but they did achieve th...

A federal judge who held a veteran investigative reporter in contempt of court for not revealing her confidential sources erred in his decision that t...