finance

Pensions for state employees and teachers have been a wrench in the gears of Pennsylvania government for decades. In 2001, Gov. Tom Ridge signed a law...

When it comes to spending other people’s money, the Biden administration has only one setting: more, more, more. Lost amid recent world events and the...

Owners of vacant and blighted properties in Pennsylvania may soon have to pay annual fees that get more expensive with each passing year. Where those ...

The Bradford Township Board of Supervisors met on Monday for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. A motion was passed and unanimously voted in t...

Here’s something to be thankful for — gas prices are still falling throughout the nation. According to AAA East Central, gas prices are three cents lo...

Too much debt always catches up with a family, a business or a government. That’s why Moody’s Investors Service last week flipped its ratings for the ...

The Biden administration is so enthusiastic to push electric and hybrid vehicles on the public that the Energy Department is offering $12 billion in g...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Tired of Congress’ repeated partisan standoffs every time a big fiscal deadline approaches, like this week’s? Weary of the breathle...

Fifty years ago this week, legislation authorizing construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by...

Despite Pennsylvania’s surging tax collections in recent years, one state agency warns that a budget deficit lies ahead, complicated even more by a sh...

RIDGWAY — The Elk County Community Foundation (ECCF) offers a variety of fund options for donors to help them achieve their charitable objectives, no ...

Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Metro, has received $2.4 billion in federal aid since the beginning of the pandemic but its ...

The Commonwealth Court struck a blow for government accountability and transparency this week when it ruled a Lehigh County school district violated t...

The ELF Fund annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees auction, was held at the Bradford Club Thursday evening. This handcrafted set of camp chairs and...

The state House approved a bill Wednesday that would grant unemployment benefits to striking workers – a move Democrats said would level the playing f...

A Bradford man was sent to McKean County Jail for allegedly taking more than $36,000 from a Bradford Township resident. Jesse Soble, 39, is charged wi...

PITTSBURGH — DuBois city manager and former Senatorial candidate John “Herm” Suplizio and an employee have been indicted by a federal grand jury on ch...

When sportsmen and conservation groups heard about the provision in Pennsylvania House Bill 1300 that would transfer $150 million from the Pennsylvani...

WASHINGTON — Local elected officials are lending support to a bill introduced by Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., to advance economic development in rural commu...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Hundreds of millions of dollars in state money designated for “general support” to the University of Pittsburgh and Temple Universi...