ecology

HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday that Mckean, Elk and Potter counties are receiving $8,650 in Environmental Education Grants from the state...

Blairsville – The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the Dominion Foundation recently awarded $3,615 to four local environmental organizations as pa...

Earth Day is Saturday. Celebrate the day — clean up your street or park, plant a few trees, start composting, build a rain barrel, recycle or re-use m...

April 22; South Wedge, 571 South Avenue At this retail co-op, owned by the shoppers, shareholders take part in discussions, elect a board of directors...

I am delighted to write the welcome letter for this edition of Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Community Health magazine. Many of the topics are importan...

COUDERSPORT — The annual forest management/habitat tour will take place April 30 at the Susquehannock State Forest. Representatives from the Susquehan...

ST. MARYS — Despite finishing their official service to the Elk County Humane Society in November, several of the society’s former board members conti...

KERSEY — Advanced Disposal Inc., is working on the difficult process of returning to business after the loss of an employee two weeks ago. William Pie...

KERSEY — It's been a week since tragedy struck at the Greentree Landfill in Kersey, but now that the missing worker has been found, the lengthy proces...

KERSEY — A Greentree Landfill employee was buried by trash at the landfill along Toby Road in Kersey on Wednesday afternoon. Rescue workers were still...

NRCS is accepting applications until March 7 for conservation assistance from northcentral forest landowners. Organizers said the Pennsylvania U.S. De...

Although no contaminants have been found in samples collected from the Kane Water Treatment Plant earlier in the week, Pennsylvania American Water off...

The U.S. Forest Service has released its environmental assessment and proposed action for Tracy Ridge on the Allegheny National Forest — a shared use ...

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump was elected, the environment is going to suffer. Both have supported horizontal fracking, the destruction of t...