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OLEAN — Black, Lyle & Habberfield, LLP, located on North Union Street, announced attorney Lynn M. Bochenek has joined the firm. Bochenek is an experie...

OLEAN — The city will set up a task force of various groups to provide a “playbook” for helping homeless people in the city. The Common Council unanim...

Irony alert: A judge last week ruled that the Harris-Biden administration’s erstwhile “misinformation czar” was herself dealing in misinformation. The...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York state judge who engaged in a prolonged, offensive rant after a melee erupted at a high school graduation party should be re...

OLEAN — “Overall quiet” and “average” summed up the local emergency response to the Fourth of July and the following weekend. Olean Police Chief Ron R...

BELMONT — Those arrested for crimes in Allegany County will all see their initial court appearance moved to the county jail next week. Allegany County...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus Gives, powered by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, will return this year on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, to support Cattara...

For years, residents of South Dayton in Cattaraugus County have been dealing with an unsightly and undrinkable reality — turning on their taps only to...

Hand it to Gov. Hochul for wrangling the Legislature into passing first-in-the-nation legislation to regulate social-media feeds for younger kids. Maj...

ALBANY — A lack of government transparency remains an issue across New York’s agencies despite Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pledge three years ago to make that...

The U.S. government spent $17.2 billion to give “emergency” internet service to 23 million people during the pandemic. The lockdowns are long over, bu...

JAMESTOWN — Award-winning former broadcast journalist Kate Welshofer, a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, has joined the National Comedy Center ...

( Editor’s note: This is the last of four op-eds from the Olean Food Pantry about solving food insecurity in our communities.) If you’ve had your eyes...

ALBANY — New York is offering up to $90 million in tax credits for news outlets to hire and retain journalists in an effort to help keep the shrinking...

Weeks after a now-former National Public Radio senior editor eviscerated the station for what he called “advocacy” against former President Donald Tru...

Several police departments and the two sheriff’s offices in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties will collectively receive more than $900,000 in funding ...

A recent court ruling highlights the dangers of forcing taxpayers to fund political campaigns. Progressives pushing such schemes under the guise of el...

WEST VALLEY — Mercy Flight, West Valley Fire District #1 and Bertrand Chaffee Hospital recently received checks on behalf of the West Valley Demonstra...