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Jan 09, 2025
(TNS)—Look up: Can you see the sky? If so, chances are good you can connect to the internet with your smartphone without the worry of dead spots. What...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 13, 2024
The digital divide — the gap between communities with and without access to high-speed internet — is a prominent issue in Pennsylvania. More than 330,...
News
Nov 29, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf announced that the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (Authority) released the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Statewide Br...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 21, 2022
One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ancillary effects was the proof it provided that broadband internet service is an essential public utility rather than ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 10, 2022
According to the state of Pennsylvania, an internet connection of 1.5 megabits per second qualifies as “broadband.” That 30-year-old standard is barel...
News
Mar 22, 2022
A grant of more than $530,000 has been obtained to bring broadband to Hamlin, Keating and Sergeant townships in McKean County. The project will provid...
News
Feb 14, 2022
HARRISBURG — Broadband service improvements are needed across Pennsylvania, but the most significant need is among rural counties, according to a new ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 04, 2021
This past summer, two reports were issued that have real meaning to the agricultural community in Pennsylvania. First was a report from the U.S. Depar...
News, PA State News
Nov 16, 2021
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey highlighted Monday several benefits to Pennsylvania after President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment a...
News, PA State News
Nov 15, 2021
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania could get a one-stop shop for the hundreds of millions of dollars the state anticipates getting in the coming years to...
Oct 15, 2021
Millions of Americans lack access to reliable, high-speed internet service, and the inequality is particularly striking in rural America. The rural br...
News
Sep 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson today announced that USDA is seeking...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 12, 2021
As Pennsylvania charts a path forward from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent analysis of census data conducted by Stateline, an initi...
News
Aug 06, 2021
HARRISBURG — Three companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX — have been awarded federal funding to bring broadband to more than 5,300 homes in the loc...
News
Jul 08, 2021
Whether it’s for online schooling, work meetings, paying bills, ordering goods and services, watching streaming services or just keeping in touch with...
Business
May 13, 2021
QUINCY, Mass. — Atlantic Broadband, the eighth-largest cable operator in the U.S., will provide broadband connectivity at discounted prices for financ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 12, 2021
HARRISBURG — State policymakers tend to get easily sidetracked to focus on issues demanding immediate attention. This often means the overshadowing of...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2021
In an ideal world powered by an ideal economy, extension of and improvements to America’s infrastructure would be developer-driven. But the ideal is s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 27, 2021
Pennsylvania, like many other states, has a digital divide that separates the haves from the have-nots. And at no other time has this divide seemed wi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 09, 2021
Rural areas across the country faced challenging development problems — which were key drivers in the past two presidential election cycles — long bef...
National Sports
August 20, 2025
(TNS) — There's a hot ticket next weekend at PNC Park. It's not the Pirates (who are in the basement of the NL Central). That weekend, they are on the...
Local Sports
August 20, 2025
After losing two four-year lettermen to graduation and having another two-year letterwinner not returning, the Owls are faced with a rebuilding year a...
Local Sports
August 20, 2025
Boys Golf St. Marys 159, Ridgway 176 The Saint Marys Dutchmen golf team improved to 3-1 with a win over the visiting Ridgway Elkers in a match played ...
Local News
Sunflower Festival returns to Kane
August 20, 2025
KANE – Get ready to soak up the “sonshine” at the Second annual Sunflower Festival, happening Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Wilds Sonshine Factory, 3...
Local News
August 20, 2025
It's not just students and teachers gearing up for back-to-school, there are all kinds of germs and bugs just waiting to be passed around. Nicholas Cu...
Crime, Local News
August 20, 2025
A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly strangling two women during confrontations Aug. 17. Montana Moore, 27, of 14 Cherry St., is char...
