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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee as families slept early Tuesday, shredding more than 140 buildings and burying people in piles of...

Jamestown Community College will work with several local businesses and organizations that will benefit from professional training funds supplied by t...

ALBANY — New York state will begin using its own tests for coronavirus, after getting approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according t...

ALBANY (TNS) — Teenagers and young adults looking to quit vaping can now text the state for support under a new program launched Friday. The text-base...

SYRACUSE — State health officials have asked about 700 people across the state to self-isolate after returning from places with coronavirus cases, acc...

Congress must move quickly to secure funds to fight the coronavirus, the region’s congressman said Thursday, but should put aside partisan bickering w...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York is preparing for the worst-case scenario when it comes to the coronavirus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state is askin...

ALBANY (TNS) — State Police are offering few details about their plan to launch a pilot program that would equip state troopers with body cameras in N...

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be listed on New York’s Democratic presidential primary ballot without dele...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doesn’t want to make a “knee jerk” reaction when it comes to allowing more casinos to open in downstate New Y...

ALBANY (TNS) — New Yorkers may have gotten used to getting a nice property tax relief check in the mail each fall over the past three years. They migh...

BELMONT — Higher sales tax rates are likely to stay on the receipts of Allegany County residents for another three years. The Allegany County Board of...

ALBANY (TNS) — If there’s any indication of the difference two years can make, take a look at the state Republican Party. In January 2018, Chairman Ed...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Spending on an increasingly popular New York Medicaid program that lets the elderly and disabled hire people, including their own rel...

TROY (TNS) — Matthew T. Albence, acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, lashed out at New York’s Green Light Law duri...

SARANAC LAKE (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will seek a balance between trail development and land preservation. When asked at a press confe...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — A chilly wind buffeted Ocesa Keaton at the local Amtrak station. She pulled her coat collar as high as she could while 30 passengers ...

SALAMANCA — As the Salamanca Common Council approved its tentative budget for 2020-21, the aldermen and mayor breathed a collective sigh of relief kno...