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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Monday that it is accepting applications for its new Community Navigator Pilot Pro...

PITTSBURGH — Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania are one cent higher this week at $3.251 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. ...

A number of Foster Township residents still don’t have their address signs up. Supervisor Gus Crissman brought up the address sign campaign at Monday’...

PHILADELPHIA — August will once again be PA Produce Month, a month-long celebration of Pennsylvania’s vegetable farmers, organized by the Pennsylvania...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mushroom picking and trimming mechanism and de...

The announcement of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was greeted this week with celebration and skepticism. The Food and Drug Administration ap...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Once again, members of the Allegany Legion Riders Post 892 and their friends will be revving up their motorcycles to help Olean Gener...

DuBOIS — The boards of directors of both Monongahela Valley Hospital and Penn Highlands Healthcare have signed a Definitive Agreement between the two ...

The first Sunday in June in the local fishing community is saved for the St. Jude’s Tommy Frontino Memorial Fishing tournament. On June 6, 112 fisherm...

NATIONAL HOMEOWNERSHIP MONTH: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack kicked off National Homeownership Month on June 1st. This celebration highlights the U...

Bradford City Council approved resolutions to hire one full-time firefighter/paramedic, one part-time firefighter and summer help during Tuesday’s reg...

HARRISBURG — Each year, the Governor’s Center for Local Government Services presents the Governor’s Awards for Local Government Excellence to recogniz...

Many state lawmakers who gleefully have given billions of dollars in tax credits to the natural gas industry and its derivatives are far more suspicio...

PITTSBURGH — Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania are seven cents higher this week at $3.240 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Repor...

Sen. Cris Dush made a trip to Arizona this week, but it wasn’t to bask in the desert sun. He, Sen. Doug Mastriano and House Judiciary Chairman Rob Kau...

The Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau recently released a promotional video, “Penn Brad Oil Museum-Explore the Gold Rush of the Billion Dollar...

PITTSBURGH — Large corporations working with smaller firms can make big business sense for both parties. Small business hoping to grow through partner...

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on St. Bonaventure basketball great George Carter, for whom a proper burial and memorial servic...

CLEARFIELD — CNB Financial Corp., the parent company of CNB Bank, announced that it has completed a private placement of $85 million aggregate princip...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Approval for new playground equipment in the current capital improvement project at the Allegany-Limestone Elementary School was the ...