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NEW YORK (TNS) — A couple of months ago, legalization of recreational marijuana in New York state looked like it was on a fast track. Today, it looks ...

OLEAN — The unemployment levels around the region decreased in February to a level not seen in nearly 20 years, state officials reported Tuesday. In C...

OLEAN — The unemployment levels around the region decreased in February, federal officials reported on Friday. Outside of New York City, the unemploym...

BINGHAMTON — It would’ve been easier for Olean if its most difficult task was slowing Mr. New York Basketball Joseph Girard III. But the Huskies’ bigg...

For most of even the best high school wrestlers in New York, the season ended nearly three weeks ago with the state championships. But for Patrick Wal...

OLEAN — Cities statewide are seeking more money to take care of state arterial routes. On Monday, the New York Conference of Mayors sent a letter sign...

OLEAN — More highway work is coming to the region this summer after the state set aside millions more due to the rough winter. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Th...

On Jan. 24, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law several pieces of legislation that will improve accessibility to voting for all citizens in New York. On...

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Some regions in America are divided into two parts, such as North and South Dakota, North and South Carolina and Virginia and West Virginia. I believe...

Count the Cattaraugus County sheriff among his counterparts in the New York State Sheriffs Association as well as police chiefs from across New York s...

OLEAN —Mayor Bill Aiello will be in Albany Monday for the New York Conference of Mayors’ annual winter legislative meeting, in which he will join in u...

Most readers of the Times Herald probably assume that all progressives are in favor of legalizing recreational use of marijuana in New York state. I, ...

OLEAN — Local representatives and gun rights officials denounced a flurry of new gun laws that passed the State Legislature on Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cu...

The Equal Rights Amendment is only one state away from ratification. Only 35 of the 38 states needed ratified the amendment by the 1982 deadline set b...

(TNS) In 2016, the powerful drug fentanyl claimed the life of music legend Prince and has, in recent years, largely contributed to the next wave of Am...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that both the New York Senate and Assembly passed, and which included the provision that a non-physician can do the pr...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers met in special session Friday to vote on a request to the State Legislature to reauthorize the county’s m...