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Government spending, affordable education and Social Security were among topics addressed at a town hall meeting hosted by Congressional candidate Wad...

SHUTDOWN: Another year, another government shutdown in the books. That phrase sounds really serious, as the government shutting down could be understo...

WASHINGTON — Is there anything more depressing than a cheerful liberal? The question is prompted by one such, historian David Goldfield, who has writt...

Highland Township’s controversial home rule charter has been stripped of its oil and gas provisions by a federal judge. On Friday, Magistrate Judge Su...

Since the events of Sept. 11, 2001, perhaps the most defining moment of recent history, Americans have seen the country go through a variety of social...

Potter County Commissioner Paul Heimel was honored this week at the state level for his service at all levels of government and advocacy of several is...

HARRISBURG – Legislation authored by state Rep. Matt Gabler, R-DuBois, that clarifies the process of filling leadership positions in municipalities is...

Never before has, or presumably again will, a former FBI director say such harsh things about a sitting president of the United States. In his much-an...

"But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory." — Robert Southey "The Batt...

For the second time, a court has struck down attempts by Highland Township residents to govern oil and gas operations within the township’s limits. La...

WASHINGTON — Although the National Endowment for the Arts' 2016 cost of $148 million was less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of the federal budget, a...

WASHINGTON — Although America's political system seems unable to stimulate robust, sustained economic growth, it at least is stimulating consumption o...

Steve Bannon blew a dog whistle for constitutional conservatives when he spoke of "deconstructing the administrative state" at the Conservative Politi...

Earlier this week, Jewish centers and schools across the nation coped with another wave of threats that seem to be aligned with a growing trend of ant...

WASHINGTON — In 1960, when John Kennedy was elected president, America's population was 180 million and it had approximately 1.8 million federal burea...

WASHINGTON — Some American disasters come as bolts from the blue — the stock market crash of October 1929, Pearl Harbor, the designated hitter, 9/11. ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Trump administration appears to be easing away from longstanding U.S. support for Palestinian statehood as the preferred outcome ...

GREAT VALLEY, N.Y. — After a woman at U.S. Rep. Tom Reed’s town hall Saturday asked the congressman why he recently voted to allow states to deny fede...

COUDERSPORT — At Thursday’s meeting, Potter County Commissioners adopted a resolution pledging to reduce the number of incarcerated individuals suffer...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Communications team have announced they will offer an amateur radio gener...