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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
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Feb 11, 2022
A former executive director of the Seneca Gaming Authority has filed with the Seneca Nation Courts a challenge of the legality of the Jan. 12 settleme...
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Feb 09, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — The New York Power Authority’s effort to blanket the state with electric vehicle chargers is stuck in low gear, with missed deadlines a...
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Feb 08, 2022
SYRACUSE (TNS) — About 20,000 people who own manufactured homes will get the STAR property tax benefit this year instead of the owner of the manufactu...
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Feb 04, 2022
KINGSTON (TNS) — New Yorkers may soon see changes to some of the state’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday she and her te...
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Feb 04, 2022
ALBANY — The expected legal battle over Democrats’ alleged gerrymandering in New York began this week as a group of voters in Republican-friendly comm...
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Feb 03, 2022
HARRISBURG — As schools scramble to find enough substitute teachers to keep classrooms running through the latest surge of the coronavirus, some exper...
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Feb 02, 2022
ROCHESTER (TNS) — Voters in November easily passed a constitutional amendment saying that New Yorkers have the right to “Clean air and water, and a he...
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Jan 29, 2022
SALAMANCA — Seneca artist Hayden Haynes has been awarded the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant...
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Jan 28, 2022
As New York Democrats propose cracking down on gun trafficking amid a crime wave, the area’s state senator has a different proposal. Sen. George Borre...
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Jan 27, 2022
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday she's asking for $1.6 billion in federal funding to settle unpaid rent owed by tenants amid the COVID-19 pand...
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Jan 26, 2022
An appeals judge temporarily restored New York’s mask mandate Tuesday, a day after a lower court judge ruled that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration l...
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Jan 25, 2022
A New York judge has ruled that the state's mask mandate can't be enforced, after it was reinstituted by Gov. Kathy Hochul over concerns about a winte...
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Jan 25, 2022
ALBANY — The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has proclaimed today National Poll Worker Recruitment Day and the New York State Board of Elections a...
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Jan 25, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Doctors in New York can now prescribe pot for any ailment they see fit. The State Office of Cannabis Management launched a new certific...
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Jan 25, 2022
ALBANY — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in state government for two decades before his conviction o...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 22, 2022
Just before the start of the New Year, Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have allowed forest rangers and environmental conservation officers ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 22, 2022
Spoken word performer Gil Scott-Heron famously said: “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.” This truism came to mind recently as ...
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Jan 21, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — The state university system has finalized its exit agreement with former SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras. Malatras has been granted a year...
Local News, News, NY State News
October 2, 2025
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced a statewide burn ban in effect immediately Thursday due to increas...
Local News, News, NY State News
October 2, 2025
WHITESVILLE — Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski presented $20,000 in unrestricted state aid to Whitesville Central School Superintendent Tammy Emely on Wed...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
ELLICOTTVILLE — The Bob McCarthy Foundation continues its annual funding of critical programs in the community, including supporting prevention servic...
Business, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
KNAPP CREEK — Another ideal autumn weekend is in the forecast as Rock City Park will host its 17th annual Gem-Mineral-Fossil Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p....
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October 2, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — Only two states — Oregon and Colorado — allow psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, to be used for medici...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
"There is never, ever a good reason to force a government shutdown. It disrupts vital government services, hurts those dependent on those services, un...
