politics

When voters around the globe had their say in 2024, their message was often: “You’re fired.” Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s popul...

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its pos...

OLEAN — The Olean Senior Center, 112 N. Barry St., in the John J. Ash Community Building, announces its schedule for the week of Jan. 6. The center is...

He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdra...

Congress allocated at least $516 billion for federal programs with expired authorizations in fiscal year 2024, and likely far more, according to the C...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after o...

Two area governments received $1 million to help with housing issues thanks to a state grant program. State Office of Community Renewal officials anno...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My prediction that President Joe Biden would drop out was a rare bright spot among last year’s not totally serious predictions. Und...

Gov. Kathy Hochulsigned a law to expand access to theHome Energy Assistance Program(HEAP) and help more seniors enroll in heating aid. The legislation...

A year into the merger of the United Way organizations serving Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, the executive director believes the UW has found its...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed the latest version of a bill to expand the state's wrongful death statute, marking the third time she has reject...

Local unemployment rose in November, but with lower rates than a year ago according to state officials. The state Department of Labor this week report...

OLEAN — The Olean Senior Center, 112 N. Barry St., in the John J. Ash Community Building, announces its schedule for the week of Dec. 30. The center i...

ALBANY — Gov.Kathy Hochulsigned the Child Poverty Reduction Act three years ago, setting the ambitious target of cuttingNew York'schild poverty rates ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month. ...

As money from opioid settlements began being distributed across the U.S. this May, the Associated Press warned that “local governments may not have th...

ALBANY — They warned about him. Now they'll have to work with him. A handful of prominent Democratic governors, including New York's Kathy Hochul, are...

President-elect Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign on the promise of deporting tens of millions of illegal immigrants. While Trump and his aid...