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One of New York’s senators has joined with another across the aisle to help preserve working forests the same way farmland is set aside for future gen...

OLEAN — More than $1 billion in extra Medicare reimbursements are expected across Upstate New York, and tens of millions are expected across the regio...

The area’s state senator has backed a plan to make the public use of cannabis a crime after complaints from constituents. State Sen. George Borrello, ...

There has been a highly political battle on Capitol Hill — actually, that’s the only kind of battle they have on Capitol Hill — over U.S. defense poli...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — A 6-3 conservative supermajority has really put the “supreme” in “Supreme Court,” and not in a good way. The court’s major rulings ...

One of the murkier aspects of congressional Republicans’ investigation of President Biden’s financial history concerns an allegation that Biden, when ...

Four months after President Joe Biden nominated former California Labor Secretary Julie Su to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, Su’s nomination remains s...

FARMERSVILLE — State Sen. George Borrello rarely gets involved in town politics — particularly a Republican primary. This year, however, Borrello, R-S...

A diverse gathering of state legislators, social justice advocates, faith leaders, union workers and business people rallied Friday in opposition to w...

In George Washington’s farewell address, our nation’s first president spoke about the importance of the people’s power to amend the U.S. Constitution....

ALBANY — As negotiations on a new gaming compact continue between the state and the Seneca Nation, state Sen. George Borrello has introduced legislati...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The White House and Republican congressional leaders geared up lobbying campaigns to win approval of a deal to avert a U.S. default...

State Sen. George Borrello on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul opposing possible plans to house immigrants at SUNY Fredonia and other Upsta...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The latest legislative push to havePennsylvaniajoin all neighboring states and ban the use of handheld cell phones by drivers was l...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello has introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of fossil fuels in the manufacture or distribution of renew...

ALBANY — Lawmakers in Albany passed a $229 billion spending plan that will increase the state’s minimum wage, tweak its bail laws and attempt to curb ...

State lawmakers representing Cattaraugus and Allegany counties agreed Tuesday that the $229 billion state budget they were in the process of voting on...

The Justice Department has been investigating President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden for a long time. The probe began in 2018, before the elder Biden ...