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WELLSBORO — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn visited Leonard Harrison State Park in the Pennsylvania...

Last year’s natural gas impact fee was the highest on record, but that wasn’t the case for the disbursements announced earlier this week by the Pennsy...

HARRISBURG — From education to housing to economic growth, Republican legislators return to the local and state tax burden as the issue holding back p...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Protecting farmland and ensuring that American agriculture has the government-policy support to keep producing is not just about help...

After the largest drop so far this year, gas prices saw a slight increase in some states. Locally, it essentially did neither. Bradford’s average at 3...

DEAR RUSTY: I don’t understand exactly how the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) works for my situation. I turned 62 in 2017 and am currently still...

HARRISBURG — The Department of Environmental Protection issues hundreds of different permits – 800 to be exact, according to a recent analysis. But le...

Gov. Josh Shapiro and a growing number of legislators from both sides of the aisle are calling for changes to the way cyber charter schools in Pennsyl...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — An unanticipated last-minute surge in college students applying for financial aid has created a dilemma for Pennsylvania’s student ...

I’ve spent nearly 25 years working as an instructional paraprofessional with kids in the State College Area School District, and it is the hardest job...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Penn State will consolidate the leadership at 11 branch campuses, including five in Western Pennsylvania, in an effort to reduce ad...

The national average price of gasoline shed 9 cents per gallon this week, its largest drop of 2024, to rest at $3.44 Monday. AAA East Central reported...

HARRISBURG — Misclassification that’s shorting workers and the state’s safety net has some legislators looking askance at gig work. Legislators of bot...

SMETHPORT — Money, jobs and community involvement were the main topics at Tuesday’s meeting of the McKean County commissioners. Representatives of Geo...

The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a ...

As a member of a generational Pennsylvania farming family, I have seen the impact government regulation can have on farmers and rural communities. Pen...

Zippo Manufacturing Co. and W.R. Case and Sons Cutlery Co. announced the Zippo/Case Museum & Flagship Store has been named the 2024 PA Wilds Center fo...

A bid by Pennsylvania Senate Republicans — with the support of several of their Democratic colleagues — to cut the state’s earned income and electrici...

RIDGWAY – North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission (North Central) recently played an integral role in helping one Elk ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As the pandemic plunged families into financial uncertainty, even temporary safety nets and bigger paychecks haven’t been enough to...