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Anyone with outdoor chores may want to get them done today, as the National Weather Service expects the rest of the week to be colder and quite wet, a...

NEW YORK — A cryptocurrency plant in central New York can continue operating after a court rejected the state’s effort to shutter the facility over co...

ITHACA — Shifting from wasteful demolition practices to a circular construction economy in New York state could unlock unrealized economic activity, c...

ALBANY (TNS) — A budget watchdog group is taking aim at the carbon tax state policymakers are designing in order to fight global warming. The Citizens...

ALBANY — Big fossil fuel companies and their executives could face criminal prosecution under New York law for their role in fueling hurricanes and ot...

ALBANY — Plans to build a milk-processing facility in Monroe County were announced last year to great fanfare but with few details on how such an ener...

SALAMANCA — The Common Council could be looking at a $183,750 bill to install new glass entry doors at the Salamanca Municipal Building based on estim...

BRIGANTINE, N.J. — Offshore wind energy projects in New York, New Jersey and Maryland are moving forward, as federal regulators examine the proposals ...

Despite high temperatures in the 70s this week, colder weather has already touched the region — and wintry conditions could be just around the corner....

A small experimental apple orchard at Cornell University’s Hudson Valley Research Laboratory may soon be topped by solar panels — which would not only...

ALBANY (TNS) — Electricity prices this winter could fall about 2% from the prior year, while natural gas prices could jump by 11%, according to an est...

SALAMANCA — If consistent cold weather sticks around Salamanca this winter, a small warming hut will keep skaters warm at the Bill Flanigan Memorial I...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center says there is a 60% chance that a weak La Nina event will develop this...

OLEAN — Plans to improve the Olean Municipal Building’s decades-old heating, ventilation and cooling system with several upgrades and modernizations w...

BRADFORD, Pa. — An initial greenhouse gas inventory performed by the University of Pittsburgh shows that its Bradford campus has made progress in limi...

DELEVAN — A former ski area in Cattaraugus County is officially the newest state forest. The state Department of Environmental Conservation on Monday ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Most Americans don’t think twice about leaving half a glass of water on the table as they leave a restaurant. It’s only when we pa...

Following Saturday’s storms and Monday’s rainfall — the first measurable precipitation since Sept. 8 — more rain was expected for today and Wednesday,...