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U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy has taken aim at wind energy development on the Lake Erie shore, introducing a bill Wednesday that would stop potential Grea...

ALBANY — State Sen. Tom O’Mara, R-Big Flats, has received several assignments on committees that he says will impact the direction of several issues. ...

Like the Afghan Adjustment Act that we lament, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act also fell out of the Senate’s $1.7 trilli...

OLEAN — Congressman-elect Nicholas Langworthy said Monday he signed a letter with several GOP incoming House members asking Senate Republican leaders ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Fees paid to the state by solar companies that convert agricultural land into solar farms will now go toward preserving other farmland,...

U.S. Rep. Joe Sempolinski, R-Canisteo, said he would vote against the Respect for Marriage Act passed earlier in the week by the Senate. In his weekly...

With Republicans gaining control of the House of Representatives, the federal government again will be “gridlocked,” as critics call it. Democrats sti...

Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...

If Republicans haven’t noticed it already, their underperformance in the midterms offers yet another opportunity to realize what matters most to Donal...

WASHINGTON — Republicans inched closer to a narrow House majority Wednesday, while control of the Senate hinged on a few tight races in a midterm elec...

NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer was elected to a fifth term Tuesday, easily defeating a Republican political commentator, but will have to wait to ...

On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room. The ...

State Sen. George Borrello has focused during his campaign in the new 57th Senate District on telling people what he’s been able to accomplish in a sh...

LITTLE VALLEY — County lawmakers urged the state to hold off on a proposal to increase regulation on cemeteries, citing the high cost of compliance fo...

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre-taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harri...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello is proposing to more than double the amount of clothing and footwear exempt from the state’s 4% sales taxes. It wo...

“It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney appar...

An odd atmosphere has descended on Washington, D.C. At the precise moment the government announced that the economy shrank for the second consecutive ...