economics

The economics are simple: As demand for personal protective equipment skyrocketed due to the coronavirus pandemic, prices went up. Health care provide...

A local manufacturing company is celebrating a milestone, as the company turns 50 years old. Control Chief Corp. started making industrial remote cont...

PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...

There’s some debate over the ability of the human mind to really comprehend numbers, especially as they get bigger. Five is simple. One can easily pic...

Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to increase personal income tax by 46.3% on higher income residents, but lower it for most families, sounds good on paper. But is...

MISSING THE BAR: Almost half of Pennsylvanians admit they’ve missed bars more than gyms since the start of the pandemic. According to a survey conduct...

OLEAN — Amanda Wetzler is candidly honest. Yes, she has thought about quitting school. Yes, it would make her life easier now. The nursing program she...

The details of what went wrong in Texas last week — most likely the biggest forced blackout in U.S. history — will take time to establish. So will exa...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that expiration dates for commercial driver licenses and commercial learner’s per...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Plans for a 21.6-megawatt solar farm in the town of Salamanca have fallen through. The solar farm had been proposed on property owne...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners approved a consent resolution item Tuesday accepting a Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic D...

The federal government mandated that COVID-19 testing be at no direct cost to the patient, removing a potentially significant barrier to stemming the ...

Toll roads are not a new concept. There were tolls collected in Babylon. Aristotle spoke of them in the ancient world. During the Middle Ages, they we...

HARRISBURG — On Monday, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) urged consumers or businesses that may be struggling with larger winter utili...

UNIVERSITY PARK — At the end of 2020, more than 12% of Pennsylvania households were experiencing hunger — the highest rate since the onset of the COVI...

WASHINGTON — Building on a month of strong results, the Biden-Harris Administration and the U.S. Small Business Administration are taking steps with t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Facing growing demands on its highways, Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation on Thursday named nine bridges on six interstate...

State Sen. Gene Yaw of Williamsport is correct. The pandemic-induced economic downturn and resulting $5 billion state budget deficit make it highly un...

HARRISBURG — After being forced to close or severely curtail their businesses over the last 11 months, Pennsylvania’s struggling business owners are b...

Polluted water kills more people per year than war and other types of violence combined. Efforts to address this issue are key, and one individual wit...