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Shell’s enormous petrochemical refinery in Beaver County began operations this week, five years after construction started and a decade after the faci...

Two recent polls ought to unsettle us profoundly, because of the extremely dark picture they paint of our country’s short-term future. The first poll ...

Commentators friendly to the president couldn’t understand it. The economy was expanding. Unemployment was falling. But the public was unhappy about t...

It usually doesn’t require the award of a Nobel Prize to demonstrate how wrong-headed Pennsylvania state legislators can be in crafting public policy ...

It’s a simple, utopian idea. If we give everyone a monthly check, we can eliminate poverty and do away with the inefficiencies of our cumbersome and f...

PART TWO: We told you about the visit of Mrs. George Thurn to Bradford for the cooking school sponsored by The Era. Now we want to share how local adv...

UNIVERSITY PARK — If not contained, the spotted lanternfly potentially could drain Pennsylvania’s economy of at least $324 million annually and cause ...

Native American activist Winona LaDuke will speak at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Nov. 15 as part of Native American Heritage Month. LaDuk...