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LITTLE VALLEY — More than 100 people opposed to the Alle-Catt Wind Farm cheered Wednesday as Cattaraugus County lawmakers approved a resolution asking...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Old Supervisors Building on Erie Street is about to meet the wrecking ball. The historic building, owned jointly by the town and v...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County is nearing $500,000 in revenue this year for timber harvests in county forests focused on ash trees. County lawmake...

What do you call a hypocritical legislative body that passes a freedom of information law and then exempts itself from that very law. Why, obviously, ...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Legislature during Monday’s session authorized creation of a full-time registered professional nurse position in the Dep...

State Sen. Catharine Young says the Coudersport (Pa.) Area Municipal Authority made the right decision to walk away from a plan for a hydraulic-fractu...

OLEAN — Joseph K. Eade was that rare political figure who didn’t have any enemies. Eade, a longtime Cattaraugus County legislator from Olean, died Fri...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers had expected to approve a local law declaring the heroin/opioid epidemic a public nuisance Wednesday foll...

BELMONT — A proposed law raising the minimum age from 18 to 21 for the legal purchase of tobacco products was shelved in 2017 but has been resurrected...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Legislature’s next annual plan to address opioid and heroin abuse was approved Monday by a unanimous roll call vote of t...

Seventeen people were gunned down in a high school Wednesday. That’s twice as many students and teachers killed in a single day as law-enforcement off...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers added their voice Wednesday to counties in the state seeking an extension of the pistol permit recertific...

BELMONT — Allegany County’s Republican Elections Commissioner Rick Hollis announced Monday he will retire, effective Feb. 28. Hollis stood and made th...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Legislature committees approved a resolution Wednesday asking state lawmakers to extend the time period for many pi...

LITTLE VALLEY — At last count, as many as 10,000 Cattaraugus County pistol permit holders had failed to recertify their permits by the Jan. 31 deadlin...

SOUTH DAYTON — The Cattaraugus County Legislature paid its respects to Legislature Chairman Paula Stockman at the DiStasio-Hills Funeral Chapel on Thu...

SOUTH DAYTON — Cattaraugus County lawmakers will gather together for calling hours Thursday for Legislature Chairman Paula Stockman of South Dayton, w...

Cattaraugus County lawmakers were shocked Saturday to learn of the death of County Legislature Chairman Paula Stockman of South Dayton. Stockman, 64, ...