October 14, 2025
SMETHPORT — Commissioners tabled McKean County’s proposed wind energy ordinance during their regular meeting Tuesday, citing continued feedback to be ...
October 14, 2025
SMETHPORT — District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer delivered a blistering rebuke of McKean County commissioners Tuesday, accusing them of dise...
October 13, 2025
United Refining Co. owns and operates the region’s Kwik Fill convenience stores and gas stations. The Kwik Fill on South Avenue, along Route 219, in B...
October 13, 2025
Creative kids and adults are needed for the 68th Annual Kiwanis Kapers. This year’s show, entitled “Finding Home,” is set for 7 p.m. Jan. 15 and 16 an...
Local Sports
October 14, 2025
Photo submitted Presenting checks from the 89th annual Southwester New York -Northwestern Pennsylvania Men's Amateur Golf Tournament are, from left: E...
Local Sports
October 13, 2025
VOLLEYBALL Austin outscores Oswayo Valley Austin beat Oswayo Valley in three Monday, with scores of: 25-12, 25-22, and 25-16 For Austin, Anna Brewer h...
Local Sports
October 13, 2025
ALDEN, NY - The Bradford Lady Owls competed Saturday at the Alden Bulldog Stampede, placing 16th against some of the top schools in the Buffalo region...
Football, Local Sports
October 13, 2025
Saturday was a night of milestones for Port Allegany, with its 20th consecutive regular season win. The night was also the 100th meeting between Port ...
Local Sports
October 13, 2025
Juniors Evan Troisi and Kadyn Tessena lead the Bradford Owls Cross Country team at Rocky Grove by placing 21st and 23rd as Bradford placed seventh Sat...
Local News
Oct 14, 2025
A "rally for democracy" will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday on Veterans Square. Bradford for Democracy will host the rally. "Together we ...
Local News, PA State News
Oct 14, 2025
HARRISBURG — For months, the looming threat of higher insurance premiums has hung over the commonwealth, while at the federal level, affordable health...
Local News
Oct 14, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — Volunteers are preparing to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 17 to 24. Nearly 5,000...
Local News, PA State News
Oct 14, 2025
HARRISBURG – State Sens. Gene Yaw, R-23, and Nick Miller, D-14, announced plans for bipartisan legislation to improve electric load forecasting, the p...
Local News
Oct 14, 2025
SUNY Jamestown Community College will host a virtual information session at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 5 to help adults ages 25 to 55 learn how they can attend co...
Local News
Oct 14, 2025
SMETHPORT — One temporary position was created, and salaries for two existing positions were increased at a salary board meeting Tuesday in McKean Cou...
Business, Local News
Oct 14, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Monday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
Business, Local News
Oct 14, 2025
The Guidance Center hosted both an internal management session and a free human resources and legal seminar for local business professionals at its Co...
Local News, PA State News
Oct 13, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK (TNS) — Penn State University's public radio station, WPSU, may stay on the airwaves for years to come after a proposal to transfer ow...
Business, Local News
Oct 13, 2025
Bradford business protocol 80 Inc. has been awarded the top prize in a national pitch competition, earning $10,000 for its customer relationship manag...
Crime, PA State News
October 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (AP) — A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to igni...
Crime, Local News
October 9, 2025
SMETHPORT — A McKean County Jail corrections officer has been charged in an alleged physical assault against a person in custody. Zane Hodgdon, 28, is...
Crime, Local News
October 9, 2025
A Brooklyn man is in McKean County Jail on charges of public drunkenness and more after an Oct. 1 incident. Bradford City Police responded to a report...
Gallery, Local News
October 6, 2025
The “Sisters of the North Woods," a group of Kane women who dress as witches and perform dance routines to the delight of children, were just one attr...
Gallery, Local News
October 1, 2025
It was Down Syndrome Awareness Night last Friday at Gator Field in Port Allegany. Cameron Ernst is the son of Chris and Abbey Johnson-Ernst and a stud...
Gallery, Local News
September 29, 2025
Possibly the largest to date, the 15th Annual Pumpkin Fest was held Saturday in downtown Bradford. More than 60 vendors lined Main Street, selling eve...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
October 14, 2025
The initial phase of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan moved forward Monday as Hamas released 20 hostages who had been held since its ba...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
October 14, 2025
LAWRENCE, Kan. (TNS) — On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah with a rifle commonly used for hunting. The killing dr...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
October 14, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — To one Pennsylvania lawmaker, the new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas marked the end of a nightmare for families and a nation aw...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
October 13, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump hoped to seal the biggest diplomatic achievement of his second term when he heralded a deal ending the Israel-...
National Sports
October 14, 2025
(TNS) —Life has been good for Rickard Rakell ever since he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins via a trade with the Anaheim Ducks in February of 2022. He's...
Football, National Sports
October 14, 2025
(TNS) — Chris Boswell has just two missed field goals this season, but one was blocked and the other has a grass-terisk. It wasn't until Boswell's sli...
Nation & World
October 14, 2025
Teenagers on Instagram will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won't be able to change their settings without a parent's permission,...
Round the Square
October 14, 2025
CANDY CORN: It's a Halloween staple, that tricolor little candy that is so divisive. People have strong opinions on candy corn — love or hate. Few peo...
Lifestyles
October 14, 2025
Dear Heloise: Recently, someone wrote in to warn about discarding dental floss in the toilet. A plumbing expert said to never put anything in the toil...
Lifestyles
October 14, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My close friend "Annie" came to my father's funeral. She had met him only a couple of times. While I realized she was doing it to be there ...
