Asks for prayers to appoint new bishop
December 17, 2025
ERIE — After 13 years at the helm of the Diocese of Erie, Bishop Lawrence T. Persico has submitted his resignation to Pope Leo XIV. Per canon law, a b...
December 17, 2025
The intricacies of the code behind the Bradford Board of Health's public nuisance findings was the focus of a hearing Tuesday for a property at 27 Pet...
December 16, 2025
During the busy holiday season, it is important to take time to recharge and AAA Nails and Spa offers customers the opportunity to do just that. At 11...
December 16, 2025
The Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau has announced its 2026 Marketing and Event Grant Program, which funds eligible projects and events from ...
Football, Local Sports
December 16, 2025
Era Photos by Pam Fischer The Gator Football Boosters sponsored the 2025 Football Banquet Sunday evening at the Moose Lodge #460. MC for the event was...
Local Sports
December 16, 2025
Girls Basketball Northern Potter 40, Otto-Eldred 34 Lilly Steele posted 24 points to lead Northern Potter over O-E Tuesday. Leading the Lady Terrors w...
Local News, Local Sports
December 16, 2025
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University will implement security enhancements for major events at Reilly Center, beginning with Saturday’s m...
Local Sports
December 15, 2025
ST. MARYS - Despite leading 11-9 at the end of the first quarter, the Port Allegany girls basketball team fell 57-46 to St. Marys as Molly Hanslovan l...
Local Sports
December 15, 2025
The Bradford Owls swim teams opened the season Friday against Punxsutawney. The boys' team claimed an 87-68 win, while the girls' team fell to Punxsy ...
Local News
Dec 17, 2025
Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center networking and security instructor Brent Bryant announced Ayden Blair is Student of the Week for Dec. 15....
Local News
Dec 17, 2025
ERIE — The Community Blood Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania & Western New York has launched a special December promotion to encourage donations. A mobil...
Local News
Dec 17, 2025
Crews took advantage of a pause in the precipitation and Wednesday's milder temperatures to clear city streets of some of the 50 or so inches of snow ...
Business, Local News
Dec 17, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Tuesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Pur...
Local News, News, PA State News
Dec 16, 2025
Avian influenza is suspected to have caused the deaths of hundreds of snow geese found at a Northampton County quarry. The Pennsylvania Game Commissio...
Local News
Dec 16, 2025
The Port Allegany School District Music Department presented Wintersong 2025 Thursday and Friday nights, featuring students in grades four through 12....
Local News
Dec 16, 2025
The Rotary Club of Port Allegany held its annual Designer Purse Bingo and more Saturday afternoon at Moose Lodge 460. Calling the bingo games was Levi...
Local News
Dec 16, 2025
SMETHPORT — Smethport Area High School sent 45 competitors to the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) District 1 Conference this week and r...
Local News
Dec 16, 2025
The sun sets on what remains of the former McCourt Label plant, the large brick building at 144-146 W. Washington St. The demolition is part of the Br...
Crime, Local News
Dec 16, 2025
Three men accused of murder await prosecution in McKean County Court, one who has pleaded guilty, one who is waiting for an attorney appointment and a...
Crime, Local News
December 16, 2025
The discovery of starving, abandoned dogs in a cage in the woods over Tuna Avenue in Bradford led to the arrest of a homeless man last week. George K....
Crime, Local News
December 16, 2025
A Bradford woman is in McKean County Jail, charged with kicking an EMT and an emergency room nurse who were helping her Saturday. Haley Baker, 25, of ...
Crime, Local News
December 16, 2025
OLEAN, N.Y. — The principal of Olean High School was arrested Friday on misdemeanor charges following an alleged physical incident between the distric...
Gallery, Local News
December 15, 2025
The sights and sounds of Christmases past returned to downtown Bradford during Old Fashioned Christmas held Saturday. People enjoyed horse-drawn carri...
Gallery, Local News
December 10, 2025
Bradford City Fire Department was dispatched at 5:55 Wednesday morning to a reported garage fire at 29 Willard Ave. Firefighters requested a second al...
Gallery, Local News
December 8, 2025
The Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce staged its beloved annual Christmas Parade on Friday. The parade featured floats, music, holiday lights, the Bra...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 17, 2025
Nearly every university relies on donations from its former students, but those with alumni in the Senate can solicit money straight from taxpayers’ w...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 17, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Generosity is shocking. Especially when it’s to strangers. That was my first thought upon hearing of the Dell family donation of $6...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 17, 2025
The Pennsylvania state House is Democratic-run – by one seat. The state Senate is Republican-run – by two seats. Meanwhile, at the national level, the...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 17, 2025
Philosopher George Santayana once famously observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Unfortunately, our nation’s coll...
PA State News
December 17, 2025
HARRISBURG — Advances in neuroscience have made increasingly clear the connection between traumatic brain injury and behavior challenges like irritabi...
PA State News
December 17, 2025
HARRISBURG – Genetic testing has drastically changed what we’re able to know about ourselves and our families. It can inform individuals about their b...
PA State News
December 17, 2025
HARRISBURG — As efforts continue to protect the commonwealth’s most vulnerable citizens, state Rep. Robert Leadbeter, R-Catawissa, was joined by famil...
Nation & World, PA State News
December 17, 2025
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Dave Sunday is co-leading a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general calling on Meta to better enforce policies gove...
Round the Square
December 17, 2025
GIFTING: With nearly 90% of older adults preferring to stay in their own homes and “age in place,” according to the National Institute on Aging, thoug...
Lifestyles
December 17, 2025
Dear Heloise: It's at this time of year that so many people feel a sense of grief during the holidays. While so many of us are enjoying family and fri...
