ALBANY (AP) — Even as New York has expanded the ranks of healthy people who can get the coronavirus vaccine, it has wrestled with tough decisions about extending eligibility to people with medical conditions that might make them extra vulnerable. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Jan. 12 that New York ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as President Joe Biden meets with senators and works the phones with Capitol Hill to push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, his team is increasingly focused on selling the plan directly to voters. His administration has done 60-plus interviews with national ...

Some local residents are frustrated by early efforts to rollout a COVID-19 vaccine across New York state and in Chautauqua County. Beginning on Jan. 11, individuals 65 and older became eligible to schedule appointments at vaccine sites through the use of online portals and hotlines operated ...

The highest elected official in the city of Jamestown has tested positive for COVID-19. On Tuesday, Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist announced the positive test. “(Monday) morning I woke up with a fever and cough, and immediately scheduled a rapid test,” he said in a news release. ...

Without any fanfare, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dunkirk Dave did not see his shadow and predicted an early spring. Dunkirk Dave’s handler, Bob Will, was going to let Dave sleep in as long as he wanted as there was no event he had to get up for, and while Will expected it to be later in ...

Democrats in the state Senate refused earlier this week to issue a subpoena to the New York State Department of Health for the nursing home data and related communications. Now, Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, and members of the state's Republican Congressional Delegation are taking their request ...