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OLEAN — There was some good news this month for members of the Cattaraugus County Board of Health. At last week’s meeting, Public Health Director Dr. ...

OLEAN — Each year the Zonta Club of Olean recognizes women in the community for empowering other women. On March 8, International Women’s Day, each wo...

OLEAN — The anti-opioid Narcan is safe and effective, area health care and addiction service agencies reassured on Thursday. Southern Tier Health Care...

ALBANY (TNS) — Officials at the New York State Education Department are exploring updates to state regulations governing the use of restraint and secl...

ALLEGANY — Dozens of volunteers from six local service clubs came together to make nearly 150 blankets for the Southern Tier Child Advocacy Center. Me...

OLEAN — After nearly three years of COVID-19 in Cattaraugus County, there have been nearly 25,000 residents with confirmed cases of the coronavirus — ...

ROCHESTER (AP) — The second person who died following a stampede after a rap concert in Rochester was identified Tuesday as 35-year-old Brandy Miller....

OLEAN — Upper Allegheny Health System, which operates Olean General Hospital and Bradford Regional Medical Center, announced Tuesday the appointment o...

ALLEGANY — The Right Thinkers group have moved their monthly meeting place to The Hall, 80 N. Fourth St., in Allegany, the former Allegany High School...

It wasn’t the storybook ending the Salamanca boys basketball team envisioned for itself. After making the state semifinals in Glens Falls last year, e...

CUBA — A collective healing event, the 6th annual Mystic Spirit Holistic Wellness Fair, is set for Saturday at the Cuba Veterans of Foreign Wars recep...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Junior health science major Jacob Schoeberl had no idea he was about to save a life when he attended a softball game at St. Bonavent...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York court workers must be rehired if they were fired over a Covid vaccine mandate, according to the state’s Public Employment Re...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — CNN anchor Don Lemon said on air last month that GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, 51, “isn’t in her prime.” Since then, Le...

Today is International Black Balloon Day, marking the lives of those who died from drug overdoses and spreading awareness of methods to fight the epid...

A hearty thank you to Eli Lilly, one of the planet’s top three producers of insulin, for slashing the price of its most widely prescribed form of insu...

OLEAN — The dramatic drop in teen and young adult cigarette smoking over the past dozen years has been eclipsed by the skyrocketing use of e-cigarette...

Kidney disease is considered to be a “silent disease,” since it usually doesn’t have clear symptoms in its early stages. Up to 90% of Americans with c...