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BELMONT — Allegany County will host its 23rd annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Sept. 7. Since 2010, the Allegany County Solid Waste D...

JAMESTOWN — City officials have declared a state of emergency as an estimated 300 people have set up unauthorized camps or are occupying condemned bui...

ALBANY (TNS) — Climate-conscious New Yorkers may not see many victories emerging from the state Capitol this legislative session as lawmakers run out ...

WEST VALLEY — Another massive component has been safely removed and packaged for disposal from the Main Plant Process Building as part of the facility...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension will host a workshop titled “Simple Composting: Turning Waste into Wealth” from 10 a.m. to noon June 1 at CCE ...

Poverty and food insecurity are two words rarely uttered outside non-profit board rooms and hunger coalitions, but for those people in the counties wh...

WEST VALLEY — Crews with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently met a fiscal year goal at the West Valley Demo...

ITHACA — Cow manure — a longtime agricultural waste headache for dairy farmers — soon may ignite a new sustainable fertilizing trend. Judiciously deco...

OLEAN — Due to the recent storms, Mayor William Aiello is announcing that the Front Street Yard, near the intersection of Seneca Avenue, will be opene...

Prior to 2020, people may never have imagined they would devote so much of their focus to handwashing. But handwashing took center stage in 2020, as o...

OLEAN — Even after more than a week, cleanup efforts are continuing across the city following the Labor Day windstorm. Mayor Bill Aiello announced tha...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County refuse disposal fees may be going up for the first time in several years. A subcommittee of the Cattaraugus County ...

A change in Cattaraugus County’s Solid Waste Law that took effect Jan. 1 places some limits on large loads of yard waste. The biggest change is that t...

From local boys heading off to Boy Scout camp to a big break for “Wiggle” Wurm, from a new plan for downtown to a fun Big 30 all-star game, here’s a l...

OLEAN — While Olean city officials have made strides to make sewer waste discharges into the Allegheny River a thing of the past, it’s going to take t...

OLEAN — Those cleaning up after the spring have another day to get their yard waste gathered. The city’s Department of Public Works announced Tuesday ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers will hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed local law declaring the heroin/opioid crisis, which ha...

BUFFALO — A coalition of environmental groups is hosting a program Thursday on the West Valley Demonstration Project and the next step in the decades-...