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ALBANY — New York state’s fifth Free Fishing Day is Saturday, when the state waives the requirement for a freshwater fishing license. New York’s Free ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) — A pickup truck struck the back of an Amish buggy in northern New York, killing two children who were 1 and 3 years old and injuring ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul visited the White House Wednesday afternoon to meet with President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients, as the mi...

Sitting along the Hudson River near New York City, the Indian Point nuclear plant repeatedly attracted controversy during the decades it generated ele...

SHELBURNE, Vt. — Vineyards and apple orchards across the Northeast — including the Finger Lakes region in Upstate New York — are still gauging damage ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York is distributing free test strips people can use to determine if street drugs they take contain xylazine, a potentially deadl...

Alle-Catt Wind Farm opponents are urging area residents to let the New York Public Service Commission know Alle-Catt’s bald eagle mitigation plan that...

Average gasoline prices in New York fell 2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.61/g Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 6,118 statio...

SALAMANCA — Tina Zerbian, CEO of Connecting Communities in Action, is the 2023 New York State Senate “Woman of Distinction” for the 57th Senate Distri...

NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving t...

JAMESTOWN — The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official museum and cultural institution dedicated to comedy, announced that children and teenage...

ALBANY — New York’s fiscal watchdogs warn the state is starting to see a slowdown in personal tax revenue collections as federal COVID-19 pandemic rel...

SALAMANCA — Students in the Salamanca City Central School District will continue to identify as Warriors with Seneca Nation approval. The Nation and s...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES is among the 37 BOCES statewide that were recently recognized with a state Senate resolution and Executive Chamber ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Legislation seeking to overhaul the state’s system for compensating family members in the event of a wrongful death is inching closer t...

ALBANY — Olean High School senior Jack DeRose has been selected to receive a $4,500 scholarship from the New York Conference of Italian-American Legis...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Health Department reports just under 1,000 residents have had confirmed cases of COVID-19 so far in 2023, and there hav...

NEW YORK — A U.S. Marine veteran who placed an agitated New York City subway passenger in a chokehold, killing him and sparking outrage as video of th...