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ITHACA — A new project will directly pay farmers for the ecosystem services they provide, such as cleaner water, healthier soils and increased biodive...

SALAMANCA — Public school districts across New York state are being urged to stop using any Native American mascots, team names or logos by the end of...

NEW YORK CITY — A pair of 9-year-old twins from Allegany took their advancing chess skills to a state tournament this past weekend, and they returned ...

ALBANY (TNS) — SUNY Polytechnic Institute is saying goodbye to the third person tapped to temporarily lead the college after its founding president re...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There was a funny thing about New York’s brutal election. Congressional losses cost Democrats control of the House of Representatives...

NEW YORK — Parts of New York finally caught a break Sunday after a storm spent days dumping a potentially record-setting amount of snow on cities and ...

WEST VALLEY — A Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Phase 2 of the cleanup at the West Valley Demonstration Project is expected to be published i...

NEW YORK — Eager, anxious and frustrated, Yuri Krupitsky is waiting to find out whether he’ll get to open one of the first legal recreational marijuan...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — In marijuana, as in gambling, the Onondagas stand out among other Haudenosaunee Indian nations in Upstate New York. In the past year,...

ALBANY (TNS) — A federal appeals court, for the second time, reinstated New York’s strict concealed carry law after portions of the statute were tempo...

The New York state comptroller reports that the state lost at least $11 billion in unemployment fraud in the first year of the pandemic? How did they ...

New York state lost at least $11 billion due to unemployment fraud during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an audit released Tues...

ALBANY (TNS) — Progressives are intensifying their calls for state Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs to resign as state GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy i...

Two villages in Cattaraugus County and the county itself have been awarded $3.5 million in Community Development Block Grant funding, Gov. Kathy Hochu...

ALBANY (TNS) — Members of the Board of Regents debated the value of the Regents exams Monday as part of an overall planned examination of the state te...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A federal judge in Syracuse has blocked state marijuana regulators from issuing recreational pot licenses in much of New York. The Th...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Mayor Eric Adamsblamed progressive activists Thursday for his party’s spotty performance in New York’s midterm elections, infuriating...

State Sen. George Borrello expressed thanks for the support he received in Tuesday’s election — and added that he was excited by what appeared to be R...