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1) Cathy Young resigns as GOP hit hard statewide State Sen. Catharine Young of Olean served for 13 years representing the 57th Senate District before ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation designed to license and oversee pharmacy benefit managers, the organizations that negotiate dr...

Both state representatives for Cattaraugus and Allegany counties are a little taken aback at New York state’s estimated $6.1 billion budget shortfall....

Workers across New York state may see their paychecks increase starting next week. Upstate New York will see minimum wage increase from $11.10 to $11....

OLEAN — A $200,000 allocation to convert Temple B’nai Israel into the Olean Community Theatre led off a flurry of state grant awards announced Thursda...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Several Democratic candidates for president are calling for an end to the hydraulic fracturing method of drilling for natural gas, but...

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo’s first priority for 2020 is to take aim at a legal loophole that allows people convicted of crimes in other states to obtain a gu...

OLEAN — State Republican Chairman Nicholas A. Langworthy visited Olean Wednesday and met with GOP leaders from Cattaraugus and Allegany counties as we...

ALBANY — One of the arguments Gov. Andrew Cuomo used in pressuring National Grid to lift a moratorium on new downstate gas hookups this week was that ...

ALBANY — The commission rewriting state campaign laws voted 6-3 on Monday to make it substantially more difficult for minor political parties in New Y...

ALBANY — Western New York state parks have seen more than 121,000 overnight camping stays in 2019 as the state parks system overall has set an all-tim...

SYRACUSE — The New York state tax department is sending STAR tax relief checks to homeowners who don’t pay their school property taxes. The state set ...

New York gas prices have fallen 1.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.69/g at the beginning of the week, according to GasBuddy’s survey ...

Several legislators have voiced concerns over the county seal’s depiction of bare breasts. And while bare breasts are not illegal — the state Court of...

BOLIVAR — The Bolivar community will receive its first look at Alfred State College architecture students’ vision — two months in the making — for a r...

NFIB, the state and the nation’s leading small business advocacy association, announced that its New York political action committee is endorsing Repu...

Professional political pundits have to speak cautiously and hedge their bets when predicting the outcomes of elections because their careers and incom...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County and its municipalities will share in $930,000 in matching funds for shared services successes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo an...