Breaking News, Local News
December 26, 2025
Due to the severity of Friday's winter storm, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is temporarily prohibiting trucks heavier than 1...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 31, 2025
The Small Business Administration won’t try to recover most of the potentially improper grants it gave to restaurants during the Covid-19 pandemic, ac...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 31, 2025
Ten months ahead of November’s midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevail will greatly sh...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 31, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Last year’s not totally serious predictions were as forgettable as President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address. Undaunted, we...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 31, 2025
In recent years, a handful of deep-blue states have aggressively tried to offer “free” health care to those in the country illegally only to develop a...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 30, 2025
A Massachusetts man who had already been evicted from 12 apartments for refusing to pay rent received $23,000 in taxpayer-funded rental assistance in ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 30, 2025
Isn't it rich that the guy who had to ask the meaning of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor — according to the 2020 book, "A Very Stable Genius,...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 30, 2025
CHICAGO (TNS) — With only hours left in 2025, Americans should treasure their time with family and friends during the too-busy and too-short holiday s...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 29, 2025
HARRISBURG — Perhaps more than any other area of concern, the story of Pennsylvania’s health care in 2025 has been carved out in reactions to the mass...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 28, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is comin...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 28, 2025
If President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are so great for the American economy, then why does he have to shell out, as he did this month, $1...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 28, 2025
Last month, Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Pennsylvania's budget into law. While this signatory duty of the governor may appear unceremonious, this year’s b...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 26, 2025
The world is watching as Australia experiments with a first-of-its-kind social media ban. The measure took effect earlier this month and is designed t...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 26, 2025
Medicaid is a federal program jointly funded with the states, providing health and long-term care insurance to more than 80 million low-income America...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 26, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — There are a lot of reasons, some deserved and some not, for Americans’ distrust of their institutions. Lately I have been thinking ab...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 26, 2025
The General Services Administration had its third-most expensive month ever for outside purchases this September, with $4.5 billion spent on items lik...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion, Outdoors, ...
Dec 26, 2025
For some reason decreed in the cosmos, many of my closest and most beloved relations have passed away just months short of Christmas. The departure of...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 24, 2025
U.S. officials from across the political spectrum vow to ramp up efforts to wean the nation off rare-earth mineral imports from China. But the most pr...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 24, 2025
PORTVILLE, N.Y. — I’ve been enjoying a personal, tailor-made Oak Ridge Boys Christmas this year. I was surprised to learn that this country gospel gro...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Dec 24, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Much has been written about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) since it was signed into law last summer, but one of its more in...
Lifestyles, Local News
December 31, 2025
DuBOIS — Smoking isn’t cool anymore. According to Gallup polling, in the mid-1950s, approximately 45% of the adult population in the U.S. smoked. Toda...
Local News
December 31, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — In 2026, Penn State Extension will offer a webinar series aimed at helping property owners plan and implement simple stewardship pr...
Local News
December 31, 2025
As one year gives way to the next, many people pause to look back on what has been and think about the hopes they have for the coming year. For genera...
Local News, News
December 31, 2025
Due to the New Year's Day federal holiday, The Bradford Era will not publish a print edition Thursday. The Era business office will be open until 3 p....
Local News
December 31, 2025
Each year The Era’s editors and reporters reflect on the coverage that was, compiling a final list of its Top 10 stories of the year. Windmill debate ...
Business, Local News, Nation & World, ...
December 31, 2025
(Editor's note: This is part one of a three-part series that will be continued in The Era's next two editions and online at bradfordera.com.) WARREN ...
