Breaking News
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
Crime News, News, NY State News
Jan 06, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Steve Gouvis touched his partner, Kimberly Hogle, on the shoulder. She had retreated to a bedroom in their Halfmoon residence a few hou...
News
Dec 14, 2022
OLEAN — Olean General Hospital and Southern Tier Health System, Inc. have launched a program that will help combat the opioid epidemic in the area. Ov...
Cattaraugus County News, News, Western New York
Oct 11, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer pushed Friday for more federal help in Buffalo and Western New York in light of a deadly new “rainbow fent...
News
Aug 29, 2022
COUDERSPORT, PA. — People lost to drug overdose will be honored and support will be offered for survivors an an event marking Overdose Awareness Day i...
Cattaraugus County News, News
Aug 04, 2022
OLEAN — Fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine is responsible for up to 50 overdose deaths in Cattaraugus County over the past 2½ years. Dr. Kevin D. Watki...
Cattaraugus County News, News
Feb 11, 2022
SALAMANCA — In partnership with Southern Tier Health System, Inc. and their Southern Tier Opioid Overdose Prevention program and MATTERS Network, the ...
News, NY State News
Oct 07, 2021
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...
Aug 25, 2021
Pennsylvania's opioid disaster declaration was set to expire at the end of Wednesday after state lawmakers, newly empowered to help manage statewide e...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County News, News
Aug 03, 2021
Overdoses can kill. As a person begins to overdose their breath slows and may even stop. The key to saving the life of a person who is overdosing is t...
News, NY State News
Jul 23, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — More than two dozen Democratic state senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week calling for them to ...
News
Jun 20, 2021
OLEAN — As Olean city firefighters were noticing an increase in opioid overdoses earlier this year, the city’s fire chief sought a way to get a life-s...
News, NY State News
Jul 21, 2020
ALBANY (TNS ) — New Yorkers who work on the front lines of the opioid epidemic say the COVID-19 pandemic is driving increased use of opioids and relap...
Local News, News, NY State News
Jul 20, 2020
ALBANY (TNS ) — The number of New Yorkers who report being affected by opioid abuse has grown in the last two years, with 59% reporting that they or s...
Jan 11, 2020
BELMONT — Data from a New York State Department of Health annual report on opioid overdose deaths showed Allegany County deaths at two in 2018, the la...
Crime News, News
Sep 07, 2019
A Wellsboro woman’s plea for a lighter sentence for her part in the overdose death of a Coudersport man in 2015 has been rejected by the state Superio...
Allegany County News, Local News, News, ...
Jun 25, 2019
BELMONT — A Belmont man who dropped a 1-year-old child while allegedly under the influence of heroin will serve prison time. The Allegany County Distr...
Health
Jun 03, 2019
What do Sigmund Freud, Prince, Janis Joplin and Pennsylvania-bred rapper Mac Miller all have in common? They all died from an opioid overdose. Images ...
Lifestyle
Jan 30, 2019
(TNS) In 2016, the powerful drug fentanyl claimed the life of music legend Prince and has, in recent years, largely contributed to the next wave of Am...
Breaking News, Local News, News
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
