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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was forced to spend $31.6 billion to protect customers at three failed banks in early 2023. While taxpayers ...

HARRISBURG — Over 2 million Pennsylvanians receive funds from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Monthly, this brings abo...

HARRISBURG - State Treasurer Stacy Garrity enjoyed bipartisan praise for several of the initiatives her office has undertaken during the department's ...

Whether President Donald Trump’s unconventional diplomacy succeeds in furthering American interests and halting Russian aggression in Ukraine will be ...

The Biden administration gave Canadian electric bus maker The Lion Electric Company $160 million in subsidies to manufacture 435 buses for schools aro...

ST. MARYS — Keystone Powdered Metal Co.’s (KPMC) Charitable Contributions Committee recently presented a $2,000 check to Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), ...

DEAR RUSTY: I am a married woman, at my full retirement age, and the primary earner in my marriage. How do I know if I should take my Social Security ...

The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) announced McKean County is among the 2025 recipients of Friends of NACD grants, during its a...

I confess: I’ve always had back-handed respect for public sector workers. It seemed to me they had figured out how to earn decent money with great ben...

The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...

The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...

(TNS)—When it comes to breakfast the Tropicana brand is about as iconic as it gets in America. Just about everyone can close their eyes and see a tall...

TRILLION: We recently heard from a reader who’s been enthused with our ’Round the Squares lately. Ken Gerg enjoyed the RTS where we gave some context ...

HARRISBURG — A budget hearing on Tuesday in the state Capitol highlighted an ongoing labor wage rate concern that has some worried about Pennsylvania’...

The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emis...

A recent report from Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican, has found that Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools, deploying an archaic tuition model...

HARRISBURG — A new analysis of cyber charter school funding offers a familiar recommendation: consider recalculating how the state pays to keep them o...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—In many ways, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi is staring at an abyss that is forcing drastic closings across the university’s co...

Annual Property Tax/Rent Rebate Clinics hosted by Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will continue during the week of March 3 with the following event...

While gas prices in western Pennsylvania dropped a couple of cents this week, Bradford’s average managed to shed just one half of one cent. Regional a...