ALBANY (AP) — Students, teachers and staff in New York schools were still required to wear masks Monday, despite a conflicting letter from the governor's health commissioner released days earlier. The state Education Department sent school district leaders guidance Sunday that said schools ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York will lift more COVID-19 rules once 70% of adults have at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, a target that Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he hoped his state could reach in days. And the Empire State building will light up in blue and gold once New York hits the ...

The Dunkirk Independence Day fireworks are always “up in the air.” But because of COVID-19, this year they are in the figurative sense, too. Responding to speculation in the community that the 2021 edition was off, Dunkirk Mayor Willie Rosas said Friday that plans are still in place to ...

As local employers continue to work to build up their workforce and bring employees back into a variety of workplaces, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has stepped in to provide some additional guidance to make all workplaces safer. The EEOC now says that employers are allowed to ...

More people are shedding their masks these days, and it’s obvious they’re happy about it. You can see it in the smiles that have been hidden for so long. With the Centers for Disease Control’s recent announcement that fully vaccinated people no longer must wear masks to protect from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fifth straight week to a new pandemic low, the latest evidence that the U.S. job market is regaining its health as the economy further reopens. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless ...