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LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers voted Wednesday to renew for two years an additional 1% mortgage recording tax that has been in effect fo...

Only two area municipalities received fiscal stress ratings for their 2022 financials, the state reported Tuesday, but 15 did not provide their inform...

President Biden is campaigning for re-election on a strong economy. He said recently, “Bidenomics is just another way of saying, ‘Restore the American...

The area’s sales tax receipts were mostly below state averages last month, the state’s fiscal watchdog reported Monday, with the exception of a spike ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Offshore wind projects need more federal funding and planning assistance to ensure they get built, the Democratic governors of s...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Projects to expand brewing and distilling and a new corporate headquarters for an area company received aid from the Cattaraugus Count...

ALBANY (TNS) — As New York prepares to issue three more commercial casino licenses, a report from the Office of the New York State Comptroller shows t...

On Sept. 1, New York state’s cigarette tax rose from $4.35 to $5.35 per pack of cigarettes. The state’s decision to increase cigarette taxes is a nece...

It seems like lately, more charges of possession of unstamped cigarettes are being filed by Pennsylvania State Police. Why is the charge more prevalen...

FRANKLINVILLE — Construction on the massive $621 million Great Lakes Cheese Co. plant along Route 16 in Franklinville is progressing on schedule. The ...

Congress and President George W. Bush sold out to the pharmaceutical industry when they created the Medicare Part D drug benefit in 2003. They created...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello has urged the governor to exempt high school trap shooting teams from a new state law requiring a background check...

Local sales tax collections almost all beat statewide gains in July, the state’s financial watchdog reported. Sales taxes in New York state rose 3% in...

It’s curious: Even as America’s economic trends are improving, Americans’ economic anxieties are worsening — including those of many who have no appar...

ALBANY — The multi-billion-dollar gap Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature must confront in next year’s state budget appears to be growing larger. Th...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Legislature committee members voted Wednesday to impose a hiring freeze until the 2024 county budget is approved in...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Congress on its summer recess, we’ve gotten a bit of a break from Republicans’ ad nauseam complaints that Donald Trump is a vi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...