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The American Pickers are returning to New York with plans to film episodes of the hit History channel series in August. And they’re seeking sites to, ...

The last time the price of Penn grade crude oil from the Bradford field was more than $100 a barrel was back in 2008. On Wednesday, the top price of c...

It’s the height of chicken barbecue season and local churches, fire departments, organizations and farms are all sharing in the tradition of slow-roas...

The New York State Maple Producers Association has cancelled Maple Weekend due to the Corona virus pandemic. The event was scheduled for Saturday and ...

A story on page A-1 of Saturday’s edition regarding a maple syrup producer had a misspelling of Brian Pfister’s name, which is the correct spelling....

The snow on the ground was crunchy and underlined with ice earlier this week as Brian Phister drove a four-wheeler on his forest property to check on ...

The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is accepting nominations for the New York Dairy Promotion Order Advisory Board, with the thre...

Heating prices this coming winter should — emphasize should — be a bit lower than last year, according to a prediction from the state Public Service C...

OLEAN — Hang on to your weather hats, because we “have a little bit of everything” coming our way, according to Jon Hitchcock, meteorologist at the Na...

It truly is the sweetest time of the year in Western and Upstate New York. This weekend is the second of the New York Maple Weekends, which celebrate ...

New York state has its wineries, distilleries, cideries and breweries in a thriving craft beverage industry. Now, the state is offering licenses for m...

PORTVILLE — Western New York’s Maple Weekends are still a couple of weeks away, but for Sprague’s Maple Farm, every weekend in March is a maple weeken...

Here we pick again? A producer with the popular History Channel show, “American Pickers” is reaching out because the show is coming back to New York i...

PORTVILLE — When forecasters called for warming temperatures a few times earlier this year, Sprague’s Maple Farms in Portville chose not to tap maple ...

Portville maple producer Randy Sprague likes the New York State Fair’s newest promotion: Maple Day, Aug. 27. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the launch of...

ALBANY (AP) — The number of craft beverage manufacturers operating in New York state has now topped 1,000. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that t...

After a mostly dismal month for local maple syrup production in March, producers are riding out as many days as they can in April. A survey of three C...

PORTVILLE — Maple syrup production so far this season has been interesting, according to Randy Sprague, owner of Sprague’s Maple Farms. “We started ea...