finance

Applications for the 2016 Property Tax and Rent Rebate program are now available, and Rep. Martin Causer (R-Turtlepoint) is reminding area residents t...

Tax “reform,” starting with taxes on business, seems to be on everyone’s agenda, and it may be a place where the incoming Trump administration and its...

With the prospect of paying off a large debt emerging, members of the Sawyer Evangelical Church are ready to celebrate. The Rev. Barry Troyer, pastor ...

RIDGWAY — The Elk County Conservation District will be partnering with Cameron, McKean, Potter and Warren counties to host a Best Management Practices...

Pennsylvanians are justifiably angry at paying the highest gas prices in the nation. The average price per gallon is $2.65, 27 cents higher than the h...

DUKE CENTER — The Otto-Eldred school board started out their monthly meeting with an audit report presented by Adam Batesky, from Buffamante Whipple B...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Business-minded students throughout Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties will have a new scholarship opportunity available to them thanks...

Six as-yet-unchosen rural hospitals will take part in a pilot program that Gov. Tom Wolf calls “something truly historic.” On Thursday, Wolf was joine...

For months, area municipal leaders have been requiring residents to put up reflective address signs. Local officials are calling the signsbetter for e...

Any thoughts Cattaraugus County officials had of the state paying for legal costs for the poor were dashed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent veto of a b...

OLEAN, N.Y. —Olean High School seniors pursuing a technical or trade education can apply for a new scholarship this year thanks to the Paul and Betty ...

EMPORIUM — The Cameron County Commissioners approved a payment from Act 13 funds for a façade improvement program to benefit businesses in the borough...

Local state lawmakers say they have a packed agenda for 2017-18, including putting together a balanced budget, continuing to fight the opioid crisis a...

ST. MARYS — The Elk County Community Foundation will award a grant from the Elk County Society for Special Services Fund. The Community Foundation is ...

Earning more money. Doing some much-needed cleaning. Being successful at school. Those are just some of the resolutions people across the region have ...

Back in October, a Marketplace-Edison Research Poll found that two-thirds of Donald Trump voters didn’t trust government-reported economic data, thank...

SMETHPORT ––The McKean County Commissioners approved the 2017 budget on Wednesday, which calls for taxes to be raised by 1 ¼-mills. The general fund b...

Real estate taxes in the City of Bradford are going up, and Mayor Tom Riel is imploring the Bradford Area School District to join the city in fighting...

Winter is the time of year for Bradford City officials to line up funding and award contracts for upcoming projects. At Tuesday’s meeting, council app...

George and Susan Evans enjoy the Christmas season so much that they always display at least five trees in their home — in addition to the numerous hol...