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OLEAN — Changes to policies regarding the dress code, cell phone usage and student attendance are highlighted in the 2023-24 Olean City School Distric...

BELVIDERE — A contingent of 11 boys from Allegany County departed from the Crossroads Center on Sunday on their way to the American Legion’s 2023 Boy’...

HOUGHTON — It has been 197 years since Native Americans have walked these hilltops and fished from the riverbank of this section of the Genesee River ...

ALBANY (TNS) — State lawmakers have taken a step toward making a common but controversial contract clause a relic of the past in New York, passing a b...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Each Sunday, about 70 people — all first-and-second generation Chinese Americans — gather in a small Dallas-Fort Worth-area church...

NEW YORK — Celebrations mingled with displays of resistance Sunday as LGBTQ+ pride parades filled streets in some of the country’s largest cities in a...

First of all, apologies to all of you die-hard Fenians who are expecting this article to wax poetic about the green hills of Ireland or the nobility o...

OLEAN — They may be leaving the pack, but these 129 Olean High School graduates will be Huskies for life. Delivering the farewell remarks, Class of 20...

More than $7 million in federal transportation aid will come to Cattaraugus County to help plan a 52-mile trail from Springville to Hinsdale. U.S. Sen...

The New York State Department of Health recognizes Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month this June, and encourages New Yorkers to make healthy lifesty...

The submersible Titan is now confirmed lost. There’s a tragic poetry to the debris of the vessel being found 1,700 feet from the bow of the Titanic, t...

JIMERSONTOWN — New buses and facilities for eco-friendly transportation service could soon be coming to the Seneca Nation’s Allegany Territory. A fede...

OLEAN — Students from area school districts on Wednesday kicked off “Project Sticker Shock”, a youth-led initiative to change adult attitudes about se...

Recently, the NAACP issued what it calls a “formal travel advisory” to warn black Americans against visiting Florida. “Florida is openly hostile towar...

At a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing, leaders from the Army, Navy, and Air Force all dutifully reported that they expected to miss their...

More than 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing — mobile homes — according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s more than in public housing a...

Barack Obama doesn’t want America validated, at least not by the wrong people. In taking a shot at Republicans Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, Obama told h...

With fears of migrants being moved to Cattaraugus and Allegany counties not materializing, officials in both counties chose to allow emergency declara...