Plus, craft shows, trap shoot and cookie swap
December 11, 2025
OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS The sights and sounds of days gone by will come alive during the annual Old Fashioned Christmas celebration set for 8 a.m. to ...
December 11, 2025
COUDERSPORT — In July 2024, a 5-year-old Coudersport boy was rushed to UPMC Cole in cardiac arrest. He was soon flown to Janet Weis Children’s Hospita...
December 11, 2025
Knowlton’s Personal Fitness captured first place in the inaugural Move McKean Challenge, sponsored by the McKean County Department of Human Services, ...
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December 10, 2025
The United Way of the Bradford Area (UWBA) will turn 100 years old Monday and the organization invites the community to help celebrate the milestone i...
Local Sports
December 11, 2025
ST. MARYS - ECC used three double-digit quarters to outscore St. Marys 54-31 Thursday. Leading the Crusaders were Chase Simbeck with 15 points and Jac...
Local Sports
December 11, 2025
Smethport’s 2025 fall athlete award winners were honored recently. Back row, from left: Brandon Furgeson (Football: Dave Magee Down Lineman Award); Ca...
Local Sports
December 11, 2025
The Bradford Owls boys basketball will have a Veterans’ Recognition night Dec. 18. The event will include both the JV/Varsity game at Bradford High an...
Local Sports
December 10, 2025
The Gators claimed four weights with pins, one with a forfeit and three with major decisions and two decisions to secure a 48-18 win over Brookville T...
Local News, Local Sports, Outdoors
December 10, 2025
Two hunters earned cash prizes in the Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative’s annual raffle for bringing their deer to one of the cooperative’s two check st...
Local News
Dec 11, 2025
The gazebo at Veterans Square looked festive in the falling snow Thursday evening, all dressed up for the season.
Local News
Dec 11, 2025
PORT ALLEGANY — Jett Finch, a senior at Austin Area School District and Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center, is being recognized as a standou...
Local News
Dec 11, 2025
HARRISBURG — Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, announced $24,200 in state grants awarded to three area organizations by the Pennsylvania Historical a...
Business, Local News
Dec 11, 2025
DuBOIS — Penn Highlands DuBois has reached another milestone in patient care. Dr. Richard F. Latuska, a board‑certified gastroenterologist, and his te...
Business, Local News, PA State News
Dec 11, 2025
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania is suffering from a statewide workforce shortage across industries, with rural areas taking the hardest hits and a 400,000 p...
Local News, Outdoors
Dec 11, 2025
WARREN — Snowmobile season will begin at 8 a.m. Sunday in the Allegheny National Forest. Snowmobile trails will remain open until noon March 31. These...
Local News
Dec 11, 2025
Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center engineering technology instructor Jason Bishel announced juniors Kinley Setzer, Simon Slade and Andrew Di...
Business, Local News
Dec 11, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Wednesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil P...
Local News
Dec 10, 2025
Heavy snow fell in Bradford on Wednesday, slowing the morning commute and sending schools online. The National Weather Service listed Bradford at 30 i...
Crime, Local News
Dec 10, 2025
The Bradford man charged last week with raping a child is now facing more than 165 felonies alleging crimes including rape of two children, traffickin...
Crime, PA State News
December 11, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Four years after the killing of a 16-year-old a few blocks from his Lebanon home, one of two charged suspects remains on the loose,...
Crime, Local News
December 10, 2025
The attorney for accused murderer Tyler Prescott has withdrawn from the criminal case. A hearing was held Wednesday before President Judge John Pavloc...
Crime, Local News
December 8, 2025
A Foster Township man is in McKean County Jail on $1 million bail after allegedly shooting at a vehicle in Gifford early Sunday. Matthew Luke is charg...
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 11, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — In another casualty of modern politics, profanity has replaced the art of persuasion. A rally held by President Donald Trump on Tuesda...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 11, 2025
Nearly 100,000 checks valued at more than $22 million are arriving in mailboxes in the coming days from the Pennsylvania Treasury Department. These ch...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 11, 2025
If historians ever mark the moment when Pennsylvania broke free from a decade of self-inflicted economic drag, it may be found not at a ribbon-cutting...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 11, 2025
Intense polarization and the alarming rise of partisan political violence has left many Americans wondering about the nation’s trajectory. That’s why ...
Round the Square
December 12, 2025
FIRSTS 2: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, was the first sitting U.S. president to ride in an automobile, taking a public ride in a Columbia e...
Lifestyles
December 12, 2025
Dear Heloise: I would like to share an idea I came up with recently — using ID dog tags on horse bridles. It struck me that if a horse gets loose, hav...
Lifestyles
December 12, 2025
DEAR ABBY: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions. It has increasingly gotten on my mom's nerve...
National Sports, PA State Sports
December 11, 2025
PITTSBURGH — Jacob Fowler made 33 saves in his NHL debut and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on Thursday night. Montreal gave ...
College Sports, Football
December 11, 2025
One of the most recognizable names in Penn State's storied history is on his way out. Senior running back Nick Singleton will not play in the Pinstrip...
National Sports
December 11, 2025
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — There was a time in the not-too-distant past when it was a yearly occurrence for the New England Patriots to win the AFC East and ...
