pandemic

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...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it will need to include several chapters — perhaps several volumes — about the...

Health insurance companies can legally charge smokers up to 50% more in premiums than non-smokers, based on the simple fact that smokers have made a d...

Plans are being developed to require vaccination against COVID-19 for all would-be foreign travelers to America. It’s just sensible. First reported ea...

The Great New York State Fai r broke attendance records every year from 2016 to 2019, but then the coronavirus pandemic shut down events in 2020. Will...

As the world works to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, the workplace has become focused on wellness and accommodation in ways that were too often ab...

As Americans wrestle over how to defeat the delta variant of COVID-19, China’s government is still refusing to provide the data necessary to determine...

ALBANY (TNS) — The number of new COVID-19 cases in New York has more than tripled since the start of the month. The state confirmed 1,830 new cases Th...

The board of trustees at Jamestown Community College approved a $32.7 million operating budget for the 2021-22 academic year Tuesday with no change to...

Had the dream panned out as planned for this July, the seventh community reunion of Olean would have taken place at the beautiful War Veterans Park. S...

The dreaded, extra-contagious delta variant of the coronavirus has reached Western Pennsylvania. This we know. Allegheny County health officials have ...

BELMONT — In a sign that COVID-19 is becoming a memory, Allegany County health officials will no longer be updating their online database daily. Throu...

( EDITOR’S NOTE : This is the second of a two-part series on Allegany native Martha Ruether, a vision-impaired swimmer who will compete in the 16th Pa...

NEW YORK (TNS) — We’re learning more about the COVID-19 virus and its treatment every day. Advances in science? Not necessarily. Some things were alre...

The end may be near — the end of the COVID pandemic, that is. As of the end of this week, there were no COVID-19 cases being treated in Olean General ...

Everywhere we look, there are signs that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. With vaccinations now widely available, restrictions are eas...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s directive for New York nursing homes to admit Covid-19 patients increased the pandemic death toll among residents, according to a ...

ALBANY (TNS) — John Kennedy Toole never made a penny from “A Confederacy of Dunces.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel featuring a disagreeable and arr...