economics

RIDGWAY — The North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission will host a webinar called “What are the Powder Metal & Carbon I...

The City of Bradford will be accepting applications until Jan. 29 for the Small Business Stabilization program, which will provide microgrants to busi...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Treasury Department, announced that the Paycheck Protection Progra...

As the arrival of a new class of vaccines against COVID-19 raises hope to overcome the pandemic, many states already have moved to stimulate economic ...

Google has once again fallen under the microscope of the government. Attorneys general from 38 states, including Pennsylvania, have filed an antitrust...

Unemployment rates went down from October to November across the local area. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry released th...

A new year often means new beginnings. The Era reached out to the City of Bradford Office of Economic and Community Development to see which projects ...

A Bradford Area High School grad is working to give people with functional limitations more independence. Brenda Morris-Wilton, a 1978 graduate of Bra...

In response to the ongoing pandemic, the McKean County Community Foundation established the COVID-19 Assistance Fund in the spring of 2020. The Founda...

From October through Thanksgiving, rural Americans died from COVID-19 at almost twice the rate of their urban peers. Although that grim divide has sin...

PITTSBURGH — The average price of gasoline across Western Pennsylvania is four cents higher this week at $2.518 per gallon, according to AAA East Cent...

HARRISBURG — State Rep. Clint Owlett, R-Wellsboro, has been reappointed to serve a second term on the House Appropriations Committee. The committee pl...

Ridgway Area School District has announced that, due to the current trends in COVID-19 cases, remote learning will continue through Jan. 15. According...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. ...

ERIE – National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. has submitted to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission its required annual Purchased Gas Cost project...

Across the 15 years in which the gas industry has made Pennsylvania the nation’s second-largest producer, the state Legislature has taken extraordinar...

Standing just 120 nanometers tall, The Era’s 2020 Newsmaker of the Year is not even visible to the naked eye. To put the size of the novel coronavirus...

A Bradford woman has been charged with allegedly taking over $23,000 from the First Baptist Church of Port Allegany while working as the church’s fina...

SMETHPORT — At a special meeting Wednesday, the McKean County Commissioners unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the issuance of a tax and rev...

Local residents certainly can say that 2020 was a year like no other. The novel coronavirus invaded every aspect of life, causing widespread issues fo...