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ALBANY (AP) — Uber and Lyft could be coming to upstate New York under legislation passed by the state Senate on Monday. The two ride-hailing companies...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 27 temporarily suspending the U.S. refugee program and barred entry to most people coming ...

BELMONT — Allegany County officials will ask the state to aid a new program to help the poor with legal counsel at arraignment, while legislators are ...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Thursday he hopes to serve as a bipartisan bridge between House and Senate members and the White House. Reed, R-Corning, an ea...

OLEAN — Female addicts withdrawing from heroin, other opioids or alcohol in the Southern Tier currently have no place locally where they can find stab...

Any thoughts Cattaraugus County officials had of the state paying for legal costs for the poor were dashed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent veto of a b...

A plan sought by local officials to cut taxes stumbled on New Year’s Eve as Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill shifting the cost of indigent defense in s...

(TNS) We’re all familiar with “pleading the Fifth” — the privilege against self-incrimination. But there’s a lot more to the Fifth Amendment than that...

OLEAN — The Olean City School District is moving forward with its new homeless students policy in light of new federal regulations. There was a first ...

OLEAN — A federal law and state case law in place to protect religious organizations left the Olean Zoning Board of Appeals no choice last week but to...

LITTLE VALLEY — Lawmakers are expected Wednesday to name Olean attorney Eric Firkel to the unexpired term of county attorney M. Mark Howden at the Cat...