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SMETHPORT — Brice Benson, principal of the Smethport Area Junior-Senior High School, will become superintendent of the school district this summer whe...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Small Business Administration continues implementation of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and Venues...

Across the 15 years in which the gas industry has made Pennsylvania the nation’s second-largest producer, the state Legislature has taken extraordinar...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

Gov. Tom Wolf's pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered "non-life-sustaining" busines...

Spectators will be allowed at school sporting events this fall. This comes after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration revised the COVID-19 spor...

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...

(Editor’s note: An article in Tuesday’s edition covered this topic but was based on outdated information.)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...

HARRISBURG — A key piece of legislation dealing with state government transparency that has the support of every member of the General Assembly faces ...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday rejected a GOP subpoena for records related to the administration’s coronavirus waiver process, potentially spark...

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...

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...

Pennsylvania’s federal legislators attended classified briefings on the situation with Iran on Wednesday, but were left deeply divided on whether an i...

Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered his administration to start working on regulations to bring Pennsylvania into a nine-state consortium of Northeastern and mi...

SMETHPORT — During Tuesday’s meeting of the Smethport Area Board of Education, superintendent David London reported on the preliminary 2019-20 budget,...

HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted ...