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ALBANY — The highest-earning New Yorkers would face the nation’s steepest income tax rate under a budget lawmakers expected to vote on Tuesday. It wou...

ALBANY (TNS) — If the minimum salary of home health care aides was increased to $35,000, it would not only lift those in the field out of poverty, but...

BELMONT — Allegany County officials joined the chorus against raising counties’ contributions for Medicaid costs. The Allegany County Board of Legisla...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Spending on an increasingly popular New York Medicaid program that lets the elderly and disabled hire people, including their own rel...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said weeks ago he planned to share his concerns over New York’s Green Light law with officials at the Department of Homeland Securi...

After listening to his first state budget proposal speech as the 57th Senate District representative Tuesday, Sen. George Borrello called it short on ...

It was typical Republican rhetoric in the Dec. 26 article on New York state’s budget deficit: “a self-inflicted wound on a bloated and corrupt system....

Both state representatives for Cattaraugus and Allegany counties are a little taken aback at New York state’s estimated $6.1 billion budget shortfall....

CLINTON — Gail Steen has a job and an apartment — an independent life she’s carved out after a car-moose accident left her with quadriplegia in 1997. ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers voted Wednesday to accept more than $6.7 million in Intergovernmental Transfer payments for the county’s ...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Health Department will end a long running program called Nursing Home Without Walls that helped elderly residents stay ...

OLEAN — Larry Sharpe, the Libertarian candidate for New York governor, told Olean-area supporters Monday he plans to win in November. Sharpe, a busine...

For a number of years, when a person with a disability wanted to meet an official from the Directions in Independent Living agency in Wellsville, the ...

To quote Dr. Martin Luther King: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” The proposed New York H...

New York state’s enrollment period for health exchanges began Tuesday and extends through Dec. 15. More than 3.6 million New Yorkers have obtained hea...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County nursing homes will share $6.6 million in supplemental federal Medicaid funding later this month, it was announced W...

Democrat congressional candidate Eddie Sundquist of Jamestown suggested U.S. Rep. Tom Reed carefully consider 23rd Congressional District residents be...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, said his recent comment that up to 100,000 in the 23rd Congressional District could lose health insurance was meant as ...