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

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PA Turnpike) are recognizing National P...

Researchers have discovered a rare palm species found to flower underground. Discovered by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew and par...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has declared a Code Red Air Quality Action Day in Western Pennsylvania and a Code...

Advocates for reproductive rights have long warned that abortion bans would endanger women’s lives by deterring doctors from providing necessary care....

MOUNT JEWETT — Kinzua Bridge State Park will offer a variety of programs in the month of July. Escape the dangers of extinction by solving puzzles whi...

First of all, apologies to all of you die-hard Fenians who are expecting this article to wax poetic about the green hills of Ireland or the nobility o...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In the woods of the northeastern U.S., a strange disease is creeping through the canopies. Spreading quickly, it causes leaves ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In the fall of 2020, when Chad Dechow got a call from veterinarians in New York describing a strange condition affecting Holste...

State Rep. Mary Jo Daley, D-Montgomery, has spent the last decade commuting between her district outside of Philadelphia and Harrisburg. One constant ...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced the temporary closure of Forest Road 508 in the Bradford Ranger District of the Allegheny National Forest. ...

RIDGWAY — The Sandy Cochran Memorial Scholarship selection committee is proud to announce that three regional students will share in the award of $2,2...

It's June, when one can be forgiven for thinking we live in the United States of LGBTQIA2S+. Old Glory is, at best, supplemented with, and sometimes s...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Extension Grape and Wine Team is calling on farmers and vineyard owners in the mid-Atlantic region to participat...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Pennsylvania winemakers are uncorking new possibilities with the help of Penn State Extension and the College of Agricultural Scienc...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Feral swine are considered one of the top invasive species of concern in North America because of the damage they do to agricultural...

NEW WILMINGTON — Westminster College in New Wilmington, named 352 students to the dean’s list for the spring 2023 semester. Students earning this achi...

WARREN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service announced the release of a new biological control on the Allegheny National Forest to help...

The air is acrid and hazy from wildfires in Canada, while the ground is dry from a consistent lack of precipitation. Conditions are ripe for wildfires...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman, along with Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, Chuck Schume...