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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
Commentary, Editorial Cartoons
Jan 30, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Whether working full time for themselves or part time as contractors, picking up occasional gig work, or having a side hustle, an e...
Business, News, NY State News
Jan 29, 2024
NEW YORK — Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentati...
Cattaraugus County, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
Jan 27, 2024
The Rev. Gerard leFeber of Olean gave his last invocation at the opening of this week’s Cattaraugus County Legislature meeting. The retirement marks t...
Commentary
Jan 26, 2024
Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed her executive budget on Tuesday. This massive $233 billion spending plan includes packages to address everything from the h...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 26, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The 2028 presidential campaign can’t come soon enough. Just think: Fresh faces, furrowed by fewer lines. Fresh ideas, not of the au...
Crime, Daily Headlines, News, ...
Jan 25, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul heard firsthand from people affected by hate crimes in Manhattan on Thursday ahead of remarks touting a bill packag...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 25, 2024
There’s a lively internal debate in the GOP about the politics of a potential immigration deal with Joe Biden. Should Republicans, as Donald Trump is ...
Commentary, New York
Jan 23, 2024
Legislators in New York have passed 24 election-related bills out of at least one chamber of the Legislature, more than all other state legislatures c...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Daily Headlines, ...
Jan 23, 2024
From endurance races at the Academy roller rink and fighting prohibition to a march for dimes, from expanding the county’s nursing homes to the end of...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jan 23, 2024
ALBANY — A couple days before Christmas, when she hoped no one was looking, Gov. Hochul signed into law legislation that will force local governments ...
Jan 22, 2024
With two funding bills passed just under the wire, the House under Speaker Mike Johnson has ensured that the federal government won’t run out of opera...
News, NY State News
Jan 21, 2024
A conservative group is asking the nation’s highest court to overturn a lower court ruling in a case alleging that a former New York official violated...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 19, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — We’re in a new year, but the headlines from Capitol Hill feel old. Once again, Congress has been debating its annual spending bills...
Allegany County News, Business, Cattaraugus County, ...
Jan 18, 2024
WASHINGTON — Rep. Nick Langworthy has introduced the bipartisan Creating Access to Rural Employment and Education for Resilience and Success — CAREERS...
Commentary, New York
Jan 18, 2024
Gov. Hochul just rolled out a characteristically careful budget that points toward fiscal sanity. Let’s hope she sticks to her guns against the coming...
Local News, News
Jan 18, 2024
Two local school district superintendents acknowledged the challenges posed by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive budget — including the end of the save ha...
Allegany County News, Business, Cattaraugus County, ...
Jan 17, 2024
ALBANY — Two Republican senators representing the Southern Tier joined colleagues Wednesday in unveiling the GOP’s agenda in the Senate for 2024. The ...
Local News, News, NY State News
Jan 16, 2024
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined 13 of her colleagues in urging Senate Appropriations leadership to support funding for a Federal Railroad Administ...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
"There is never, ever a good reason to force a government shutdown. It disrupts vital government services, hurts those dependent on those services, un...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
This past Sunday I climbed Phelps Mountain, one of the 46 high peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. As I was hiking, I thought back to 1968 ...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
Less than a month into school, Olean parents are already facing tough challenges. I’ve seen posts of a student bruised and bloodied, another who switc...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
ALBANY — New Yorkers continue to face some of the costliest health premiums in the United States, and the insurance industry’s recently finalized rate...
Lifestyle, Lifestyles
October 2, 2025
The filmography of American writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is an eclectic collection of character-driven stories that often include a combinatio...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
PORTVILLE — The idea to make a launch point for kayaks and other watercraft on the Allegheny River in the town of Portville has resulted in the develo...
