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We’re coming up on Halloween and among the many spooky symbols that illustrate the season are bats. But while bats are indeed scary looking — and they...

ALBANY (TNS) — New Yorkers have become less optimistic in recent months about whether the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is behind them, a new poll...

Cattaraugus County reported 53 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend as the county’s seven-day average for positivity in testing was at 9.3%. By contras...

OLEAN — Visitation to Olean General Hospital and Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center has been suspended again because of increasing cases of COVID-...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul has no plans to drop her opposition to a religious exemption to New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health work...

BELMONT — The head of Allegany County’s largest hospital is urging residents to get vaccinated, “not because of any mandate, but because it makes sens...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When I called to schedule an annual well-check appointment for my son, I was told that he would need to wear a mask in the o...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County suffered five COVID-19 deaths since Friday — one Saturday and four on Monday, health officials reported. There have now bee...

ALFRED — Recent drinking water quality monitoring conducted by Alfred University has found elevated levels of lead in drinking water in Kenyon, Davis ...

ALBANY — Home health aides who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination are barred from working in New York as of Friday under a new state mandate that on...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that decriminalizes possession and sale of hypodermic needles and syringes in New York. Under the new law, ne...

MAYVILLE (TNS) — Authorities have identified one of two sets of human remains found near a public trail in Chautauqua County’s town of Portland in lat...

BELMONT — Allegany County residents needing a Pfizer booster shot for COVID-19 can get one on Tuesday. The Allegany County Department of Health will c...

ALBANY (TNS) — Visitors toNew Yorkfrom several other states will now be able to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination using New York’sExcelsior Passva...

ALBANY (TNS) — Thousands of nurses and other medical personnel who work in state agencies that care for inmates or disabled and mentally ill individua...

PORTVILLE — Three bus drivers and a bus monitor, two of whom were allegedly told they would be terminated if they refused to resign, spoke out at the ...

ALBANY (TNS) — A year ago, health care workers were the undisputed heroes of the pandemic, and rightly so. When COVID-19 was novel and unknown, when t...

WELLSVILLE — A day after the state’s mandate requiring healthcare employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19, Jones Memorial Hospital reported that 96% o...