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MARIENVILLE — The US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is accepting public review and comment for the Madlick Vegetation Management Project in...

UNIVERSITY PARK — At a time when Pennsylvania is largely counting on riparian buffers to achieve water-quality improvements needed to meet the state’s...

DUBOIS — Millions of people suffer from seasonal allergies, and Pennsylvania’s allergy season can be long and brutal. Allergy season in the state can ...

The Community Blood Bank is sending out an appeal to the community as the blood supply for the region plummets to dangerous levels. Due to the dangero...

The visual celebration of Growing Together — a life-enhancing collaboration between the Elk County Council on the Arts and the Continuing Care Retirem...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension invites youth in Pennsylvania to participate in a free, virtual activity focused on veterinary care for compani...

LEWISBURG — The boy shuffled, silently, in the wet grass beneath a maple tree, looking like a little blue ghost in his rain poncho. The sky was deep p...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced two bills on Tuesday to address food in...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a statewide Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for fine partic...

Though I was very young in those days, I still remember traveling to our favorite summer vacation spots. Time moves slowly in those early years and th...

ONE: Only one percent of lucky individuals have the highly sought-after trait of heterochromia iridum, a term which describes the variation in color t...

DUCKLINGS: This tidbit of information was so amazing, we had to share. On Friday, Patricia Demjan emailed to tell us about a pretty astonishing sight ...

Seeing a snake slithering through the grass probably wouldn’t get a second glance from most people. Unless the creature happens to be a 5-foot albino ...

I crawled out of bed a little stiff and sore from the previous day’s fishing. You don’t realize how much twisting, turning and bouncing you do in a sq...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission again is seeking input from the public in surveying wild turkeys this summer. The annual Pennsylvania Wi...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced that three members of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) Watershed Conservation Program won the 202...

It has been nearly a month since a rabid bat was found in Bradford. The Euclid Avenue homeowner who had contact with the creature reportedly received ...

MOUNT JEWETT — The Kinzua Bridge State Park will offer a variety of programs in the month of July. Today at noon, explore the park while looking for i...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been following the persisting poor air quality over the past several days and has re...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When scientists announced at a conference last week that they had created synthetic human embryos, it felt like something from Brave ...