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SMETHPORT — At a special meeting Thursday afternoon, the McKean County commissioners authorized the county to submit an application to the Pennsylvani...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford department of athletics and Alpha Phi Omega chapter will host its fourth annual "Teal There's a Cure" campaig...

As with a number of families in the country, cancer is no stranger to the Carinci family of the Port Allegany area. It is the ongoing fight with the d...

HARRISBURG — Applications for 2018 property tax/rent rebate program are now available, and free assistance is available through state representatives ...

While many people in the region can snuggle down in a nice warm house, office or workplace and avoid the dangerous arctic temperatures that have settl...

Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania are about a penny more expensive this week at $2.471 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. ...

Zippo Manufacturing Co. announced Monday that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Northern Lights Ente...

For the 10th year, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has been named a Military Friendly School by Viqtory Media for embracing military students...

Maybe it’s just me, but I remember when winter used to be fun. The other day, as I was standing knee-deep in a snowdrift, using a broom to try to get ...

This time of year there’s no shortage of talk about coyotes. They’ve been around for decades. I suppose a blanket of snow on the ground provides a vis...

When David Livingston officially took over as the executive director of the Destinations Bradford ministry earlier this month, he likely didn’t think ...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to enter into a grant agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protectio...

Two blighted homes in Bradford City will be coming down. Bradford City Council accepted bids at Tuesday’s meeting to demolish two properties: 24 Roche...

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is accepting bids for a restaurant license in Elk County. On Tuesday, the agency announced its eighth license au...

PITTSBURGH — Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania are about one cent less expensive this week at $2.456 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas ...

Here's what usually happens when we get sick. We go to the doctor, get a prescription and, before too long, we're in recovery – managing ourcondition ...

The United Way of the Bradford Area has awarded the first round of Community Innovation and Impact funding. This funding stream is available quarterly...

Investment in early childhood education makes sense for so many reasons: economically, socially and developmentally. A local fund, the Early Childhood...

When Betsy Dolan Eschrich learned of impending snow and cold for the next several days, she knew it would be just what her late father would have want...

On a summer day, as I stood on an overlook at the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon with my family, I watched a dragonfly fluttering around us and then into t...