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During last week’s Super Bowl hype, developments with the Bills were pushed a bit to the background, with the notable exception of an update on the co...

In our area of the nation, it’s unusual for a public event to be so noteworthy it draws national and international attention. Naturally, it requires a...

Perhaps we can blame COVID fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to spread th...

Wokeness is, make no mistake, a multi-headed hydra that imperils Western Civilization in countless ways, attacks relentlessly, and is almost impossibl...

WELLSVILLE — This was the kind of victory for which Michelle Alvord had been waiting. Oh, her young Wellsville girls basketball team had done its shar...

ALLEGANY — The New Life boys basketball team again eclipsed the 80-point in its meeting with Archbishop Walsh. But this time it won in even more decis...

ALBANY (TNS) — Inspired by the amazing success of George Santos, a good friend of mine, I am announcing today that I will run for Congress. Let me be ...

Today we look ahead to February’s full moon, which arrives Sunday, and look back on a local version of Groundhog Day as reported by a reader. February...

ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is in its second year of studying moose in the Adirondacks, fitting 19 moose with...

ITHACA (TNS) — Early COVID-19 variants that no longer circulate among humans are surging among New York’s white-tailed deer, raising questions about w...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — A furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town has predicted six more weeks of winter during an annual Groundhog Day celebrat...

Each year on Feb. 2 many of us await the verdict of a groundhog’s shadow — or no shadow — to tell us if we are in for a hard six more weeks of winter....

WELLSVILLE — We all want to know what the weather is going to be. Is it going to rain, is it going to snow, will the sun shine? And the most asked que...

From a dog that’s more like a cat and a woodchuck to helping out those overseas, from a triple-digit win for St. Bonas to a new vision for JCC, here’s...

In the November 2022 column I reported on the wayward limpkin that turned up in a marshy area of the Niagara River in Lewiston and dazzled birders fro...

SCIO — Safe to say the Andover/Whitesville girls basketball team is back on track. After suffering a pair of double-digit-deficit setbacks in the midd...

ST. BONAVENTURE – The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team fell to Rhode Island, 74-57, on Sunday afternoon at the Reilly Center. I’yanna Lops pace...

Anglers seeking to hit the ice this winter should be careful, said the head of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, especially in light...