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The front-page article in Wednesday’s Olean Times Herald an the huge ad by the New York Association of Convenience Stores in Monday’s edition, both in...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Board of Health has reached out to county lawmakers asking them to consider banning flavored e-liquid nicotine because ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers plan to set a public hearing for June 12 to hear an update on the $6 million brewery/pub and craft beer m...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers voted Wednesday to refer the findings of an investigation of alleged misconduct involving two former coun...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Legislature Minority Leader Susan Labuhn, D-Salamanca didn’t have trouble getting additional sponsors on a resoluti...

LITTLE VALLEY — Lawsuits were filed in state Supreme Court Wednesday alleging state Election Law irregularities that threaten to strip dozens of candi...

LITTLE VALLEY — Work can now officially begin on a new Franklinville Highway Barn. The Cattaraugus County Legislature unanimously awarded a total of a...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers passed a local law Wednesday to collect a mortgage tax — retroactive to Dec.1, 2018. The county’s mortgag...

OLEAN —Mayor Bill Aiello will be in Albany Monday for the New York Conference of Mayors’ annual winter legislative meeting, in which he will join in u...

OLEAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to raise the age to purchase tobacco products to age 21 drew praise Wednesday from Cattaraugus County Public Heal...

Cattaraugus County Democratic Party Chairman Frank Puglisi blasted the County Legislature over the weekend for voting last week to give health insuran...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County and 10 other counties have agreed to build a 30-bed secure detention facility in Bath for 16 and 17-year-olds. Soci...

ALBANY (AP) — New York lawmakers are taking a close look at state spending on agricultural programs. The state Assembly's agriculture committee is und...

LITTLE VALLEY — Few Cattaraugus County legislators expect any more changes in the record $243.3 million county budget for 2019. Changes so far have be...

LITTLE VALLEY — Republican Norman Marsh of Little Valley was elected to a one-year vacancy on the Cattaraugus County Legislature in voting Tuesday. Ma...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County’s animal abuse registry saw a small change Wednesday, with officials hoping to keep farm animals out of potentially abusive...

LITTLE VALLEY — To Cattaraugus County Legislator Vergilio “Dick” Giardini, you can’t be too nice to a disabled veteran. The Allegany Democrat has prev...

LITTLE VALLEY — Dr. Anthony L. Evans has served as executive director of the Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau since his appointment by the County Legis...