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President Donald Trump’s call to raise the $600 payments included in the recent COVID relief plan to $2,000 gave Democrats the opportunity to deliver ...

No one expected Donald Trump to handle a defeat in the 2020 election well. It was predictable he’d deny that he really lost and allege the vote was ri...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello joined Senate Republican colleagues to demand that the Democrat majority take action to provide internet access to...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area residen...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello joined Republican colleagues Wednesday in demanding that the Senate Democratic majority use subpoena power to comp...

A new poll finds 62% of New Yorkers think that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is still to come, while only 27% think that the worst is over. A ...

The recent interest regarding the new majority of the Farmersville Town Board’s alleged violation of the open meetings law, for meeting with an attorn...

ALBANY — The blue wave that swept over the state capital last year is being followed by a red riptide as Senate Republicans head for the exits and Dem...

Chris Stanley, in his recent commentary on why President Trump won’t win a second term, completely ignored the many reasons that the president will in...

FREEDOM — Austin Morgan, Democratic candidate in the 57th Senate District, attended Monday night’s League of Women Voters Republican primary debate at...

History will record that, by narrowly taking control of the House of Representatives in 2018, the Democrats avoided what could have been a catastrophi...

State Sen. Catharine M. Young is afraid Democratic control of the State Senate will be very detrimental to Upstate counties. After Tuesday’s elections...

If there’s one thing people of different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds have in common, it’s health. And although cultural and familial aspec...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in colle...

ALBANY (AP) — Democrats won two special elections for the New York state Senate Tuesday but Republicans will remain in charge of the chamber after a k...

ALBANY (AP) — Democrats in the New York state Senate reunited Tuesday for the first time since a 7-year-long schism within the party helped give contr...

The majority of Catholic priests are great, courageous, hard-working, holy men. The priests involved in the sexual misconduct scandals are a very smal...

ALBANY (AP) — There's a new proposal to overhaul government sexual harassment policies in New York state. The Senate's Republican majority announced t...