social issues

BUFFALO — Federal prosecutors and Community Bank, N.A., have agreed to a settlement to resolve allegations of violations of the Americans with Disabil...

Goodwill of Western New York has received a $219,205 Workforce Inclusion grant from the Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. Nearly 90% of the grant —...

ALBANY — A proposed amendment to New York’s Constitution that’s intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any m...

WEST VALLEY — The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) and CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), its cleanup contractor at the W...

OLEAN — SUNY Jamestown Community College celebrated students who completed the first section of the new Direct Support Professional microcredentials p...

SALAMANCA — Drugs, vagrancy, trespassing, robbery, dangerous driving, sexual assault, abandoned houses — these are just some of the ongoing issues cit...

OLEAN — SUNY Jamestown Community College celebrated students who completed the first section of the new Direct Support Professional microcredentials p...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Dr. Jonathan Chitiyo, associate professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, has published a new book about tea...

Area unemployment rates in June stayed relatively flat, mirroring trends at the state and national level. According to the state Department of Labor, ...

ANGELICA — With the Allegany County Fair as a backdrop, state Sen. Tom O’Mara paid tribute to a veteran selected earlier this year as a 2024 inductee ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For 50 years, St. Bonaventure University’s student-run Warming House has been addressing food insecurity in the Olean area. In recog...

OLEAN — United Way of Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties announces $170,540 in grants have been awarded to 19 service organizations within Allegany Count...

OLEAN — Safe Kids Southern Tier New York is excited to announce its collaboration with the Olean YMCA to provide sunscreen dispensers at the newly ope...

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this N...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Republicans have adopted a platform , in advance of the party convention next week in Milwaukee, that might manage to be a s...

OLEAN — Encouraging area students to get moving and active in a variety of ways is the ultimate goal of a new collaboration between the Olean Family Y...

OLEAN — The YMCA of the Twin Tiers and SUNY Jamestown Community College are partnering to offer child care on JCC’s Cattaraugus County Campus in downt...

OLEAN — Changes to policies regarding the dress code, water bottles and the disciplinary process are highlighted in the 2023-24 Olean City School Dist...