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NEW YORK (AP) — The start of spring training likely will be a casualty of Major League Baseball’s lockout, which will threaten opening day unless the ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A group of Western Pennsylvania companies and global power players have formed an alliance to pursue making this region a hub for c...

The Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators (PASA), the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO), and the Pennsylvania ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Lawmakers are set to take the first serious step toward legalizing recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania. A hearing scheduled Mond...

ULYSSES — Wellwyn Farm, a fourth-generation family dairy farm in Potter County has received a value-added producer grant of $248,410 from the U.S. Dep...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s governor and his Democratic allies in the Legislature on Wednesday laid out a proposal to spend federal pandemic reli...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The list of problems worsened by the pandemic is long. It swamped our antiquated and fraud-susceptible unemployment system. It burne...

ERIE — National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (National Fuel) has submitted to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission its quarterly adjustment...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Hunters took 3,659 Pennsylvania black bears in 2021, the fifth-best bear harvest ever and the second largest since 2011. That total...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When Farnaz Farhi got an email from a Penn State student last summer, she wasn’t even sure it was real. The sender, Nora Van Horn...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will accept walk-up volunteers at trout stockings again this year, just as the agency did...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), a federal-state partnership working to strengthen economic growth and community developm...

BEST STATE TO RETIRE? With 27% of all non retired adults having no retirement savings, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its repor...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A series of climate hubs, including one in Pennsylvania, has been launched by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bolster climate...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Larger companies control Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana market because of high licensing fees and financing requirements, access ...

The Marilla Winter Trek is back in the Marilla Reservoir, west of Bradford. The event started by Gene Cornelius 15 years ago didn’t occur last year du...

Funding through theU.S. Department of Agriculture to help emergency response agencies in rural communities is reaching into local McKean County commun...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In a new nationwide report released Wednesday, Pennsylvania earned a failing grade for its tobacco control measures, including prev...