Local News, Online Features
Jan 13, 2021
SMETHPORT — Brice Benson, principal of the Smethport Area Junior-Senior High School, will become superintendent of the school district this summer whe...
Bradford, Local News, News
Jan 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Small Business Administration continues implementation of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and Venues...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 02, 2021
Across the 15 years in which the gas industry has made Pennsylvania the nation’s second-largest producer, the state Legislature has taken extraordinar...
Editorials
Dec 03, 2020
By the looks of it, President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will be among the most teacher-friendly in history — and not just because incoming firs...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2020
Two months before the 2016 election, Donald Trump gave his first major speech on immigration in Phoenix. In it, he used the words “illegal” or “illega...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 31, 2020
There’s a good reason that the White House released President Donald Trump’s latest executive order in the dead of night. The order is among the darke...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 05, 2020
(Editor’s note: The following commentary was written before President Donald Trump and his wife Melania tested positive for COVID-19.) “If you want to...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 21, 2020
Over the past several years, a new certainty was added to death and taxes: Jared Kushner would fail in his role as the administration’s Middle East po...
Bradford, News, Online Features
Sep 14, 2020
Gov. Tom Wolf's pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered "non-life-sustaining" busines...
High School, Local Sports, Sports
Sep 02, 2020
Spectators will be allowed at school sporting events this fall. This comes after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration revised the COVID-19 spor...
Editorials
Aug 25, 2020
From the resumption of school to Penn State’s football season and innumerable entertainment and cultural events in between, COVID-19 has taken a heavy...
Bradford, Local News, News
Aug 19, 2020
(Editor’s note: An article in Tuesday’s edition covered this topic but was based on outdated information.) Coudersport Area School District is ready t...
Local News
Jul 24, 2020
HARRISBURG — A key piece of legislation dealing with state government transparency that has the support of every member of the General Assembly faces ...
Local News, News, Obituaries
Gov. Tom Wolf rejects GOP subpoena for business waiver records, but releases some information online
May 08, 2020
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday rejected a GOP subpoena for records related to the administration’s coronavirus waiver process, potentially spark...
Local News
Mar 14, 2020
HARRISBURG — The House is preparing to return for a historic session week on Monday. As a result of the Capitol complex being closed to visitors, seve...
Bradford, Local News, News
Mar 07, 2020
Governor Tom Wolf confirmed two cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania Friday. Wolf, referring to the two as the first presumptive positive cases of 2019 N...
Local News
Jan 10, 2020
Pennsylvania’s federal legislators attended classified briefings on the situation with Iran on Wednesday, but were left deeply divided on whether an i...
Local News, Online Features
Oct 04, 2019
Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered his administration to start working on regulations to bring Pennsylvania into a nine-state consortium of Northeastern and mi...
Bradford, Local News
Apr 18, 2019
SMETHPORT — During Tuesday’s meeting of the Smethport Area Board of Education, superintendent David London reported on the preliminary 2019-20 budget,...
News
Dec 01, 2018
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted ...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
