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Looking ahead to a better year? As 2017 was getting underway — less than two months after the election of Donald Trump as president — the Olean Times ...

ALLEGANY — A mobile home fire Tuesday afternoon along a rural route in Allegany caused agencies from across southeastern Cattaraugus County to respond...

HINSDALE — A head-on collision shut down part of Route 16 in Hinsdale Friday afternoon and sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries. The Hi...

We ran across a couple of issues that unfolded 45 years ago this week in Olean — issues that will echo with readers today. First, on Oct. 12, 1972, Ma...

OLEAN — City officials hope to discuss a new idea for the $1.25 million farmer’s market project next week — moving it downtown. The Common Council app...

Today we have the last installment of our most recent collection of journalism tales, courtesy of Rick Schwab, former Cattaraugus County editor for th...

In our most recent installment, former editor for the Olean Times Herald Rick Schwab shares a variety of events he covered from his time at the paper ...

As southeast Texas suffers under the epic flooding of the past several days, local residents old enough to remember must have had a flashback or two t...

Extreme weather and flooding in the Twin Tiers earlier this month likely reminded older area residents of Hurricane Agnes in June 1972. And it was 52 ...

We don’t often look for opportunities to toot our own horn, but there are times … Olean native Frank Palmer, now living in Sacramento, has emailed us ...

OLEAN — White paper signs tacked to the Olean Kmart’s glass doors announced to the public Thursday that the location is going out of business. The sto...

A 48-year-old Little Valley man’s conviction for rape and unlawful imprisonment two years ago has been overturned by the Appellate Division of State S...

OLEAN — The city's Department of Public Works was working at noon today to repair a water main break on Main Street. Water service was disrupted for b...

ALBANY — With nine awards announced, the Olean Times Herald is the most decorated newspaper team in the state for the 2016 New York State Associated P...

H oward “Sparky” Linderman of Hinsdale, a former Olean Times Herald printer and good friend of State & Union, dropped by recently to show us a copy of...

“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” — Carl Sagan, American astronomer, author ...

It was heartening to note the space the Olean Times Herald granted to Wanda Shirk of Potter County in Wednesday’s edition, as she defended her positio...

OLEAN — One girl, 8, only asked for clothes — shirts, pants, pajamas and boots — as well as a doll and a kids’ doctor’s kit. Her two little sisters al...