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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s latest fix for a dwindling muicipal police force will focus on lowering fitness standards to entice recruits. House Bill 8...

The meeting began with a panel presentation on the issue of homelessness in the twin tier region. Madeline Miles, program vice president, commented on...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Words matter, especially when it comes to discussing Hamas’ brutal slaughter of Israeli civilians, or the massive civilian casual...

SMETHPORT — At Tuesday’s meeting, the McKean County commissioners heard an update on the ARPA Whole Home Repair Program. Betsy Eobstel from McKean Cou...

SMETHPORT — Several seats in the municipal general election appear to have been won by write-in candidates. Unofficial results released by the McKean ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s announcement that he won’t seek reelection means the end of years of liberal Democrats blaming hi...

The Bradford Area School District Board on Monday approved girls wrestling as an Individual sport for the 2023-24 school year, with the understanding ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Chairman of the U.S. Senat...

Tuesday was a very good day if you support common sense in American politics. On both the right and the left, voters and politicians embraced candidat...

PITTSBURGH — A resident of Kersey has been sentenced in federal court to 28 months of imprisonment followed by four years of supervised release on his...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s bad enough that Congress and the White House are making no serious effort to cut spending these days — something we all wind u...

Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers have been struggling to make ends meet for years, especially in these rural areas. One reason for the strugg...

Children were playing in their driveway in suburban Luzerne County on a sunny day in May. At ages 14 months and 5 years, they were momentarily unsuper...

SMETHPORT — Voter turnout at Tuesday’s municipal general election was low, and a few issues caused results to come in a bit later than expected, an el...

ELDRED — The race for Eldred Borough Council may hinge on write-in votes. Wednesday afternoon, McKean County Director of Elections Brett Perry said, “...

The election for Potter County commissioners’ seats remained up in the air Wednesday as a total of write-in votes exceeded votes received by two Democ...

HARRISBURG — Though there’s been a push to formally legalize skill-game gambling machines in Pennsylvania, some legislators want them banned outright....

The entire Democratic political establishment freaked out recently when The New York Times published a story headlined, “Trump Leads in 5 Critical Sta...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse and we couldn’t be any more divided as a nation, war breaks out in the Middle Ea...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has two public events planned to help commemorate Native American Heritage Month in November. The first is an...