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As unregulated cannabis retailers proliferate around New York at eye-popping rates, the beleaguered legal businesses that only began to receive recrea...

BUFFALO — Western New Yorkers will be able to help feed their hungry neighbors while shopping for groceries at area retailers now and into the coming ...

NEW YORK — Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to intro...

“Please support local business.” That is one of the first things I read when I looked at the City of Olean website. I do support local business when I...

ALBANY — New York is distributing more than 270,000 reusable bags to low- and moderate-income communities in advance of the state’s plastic bag ban st...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York’s plastic bag ban is coming soon. Here’s what you need to know about the new law. Who’s covered and when does it start? Any ...

OLEAN — Olean’s Olympia Sports store appears safe from Maine-based company’s plan to close 76 stores, including a dozen in Upstate New York. The athle...

OLEAN — The 2019 New York state budget includes a ban on single-use plastic bags — effective March 1, 2020. “We’re going to need the whole year to get...

More Americans than ever before in are legally taking prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical prices are increasing about 8 percent per year – more than fo...

OLEAN — Local retailers said they will comply with a ban on single-use plastic bags now under consideration, but would like more details moving forwar...

OLEAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to raise the age to purchase tobacco products to age 21 drew praise Wednesday from Cattaraugus County Public Heal...

We’ve all heard the laments: The Christmas shopping season starts too early … It’s not even Thanksgiving yet … The Christmas season has become too com...

The owner of Tops Friendly Markets reportedly is exploring filing for bankruptcy and it could come as early as next as next month, according to a repo...

OLEAN — Retailers across the nation have been doing their best to lure back Black Friday shoppers — and in the Olean area it appeared to pay off both ...

From a rousing revival to a centenarian wishing to fight, from Santa Claus coming to town to a push for a path, here’s a look back on the week that wa...

OLEAN — The site of the former AJ’s Bar, which was gutted in a January electrical fire, is set to become the newest retail location on West State Stre...

Shoppers at local brick-and-mortar stores can get a sales-tax break this time of year on clothing and footwear purchases costing less than $110. Becau...

OLEAN — In case you missed it, the Cattaraugus County Legislature voted in September to raise the age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21, which goes into ef...