institutions

The Women’s Giving Circle of McKean County (WGC) granted a total of $7,400 to five nonprofit organizations at their annual business meeting held Nov. ...

It appears the McKean County Commissioners board will be Tom Kreiner, Carol Duffy and Marty Wilder, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s ele...

“Office Space” may be a comedy classic, but the government’s version is no laughing matter. Last month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office rele...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Democrats are so accustomed to losing statewide elections in blood-red Mississippi that they hardly get all shook up about a candid...

All three seats for McKean County commissioners are up for election, and voters will select two candidates at the polls. In order of the ballot, Democ...

Four candidates are vying for two vacancies on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Republican candidates are Maria Battista and Harry F. Smail Jr. Battis...

The candidates below are in contested races statewide. Because a number of candidates have cross-filed, they are listed in alphabetical order by first...

As almost half of all states allow recreational marijuana, it sometimes feels inevitable that Pennsylvania will follow the lead of their neighbors. Du...

The 50+ CLUB will meet, as usual, on the second Wednesday of the month for November. However, for December, the group will meet the first Wednesday of...

“Do as I say, not as I do” is a catchphrase for hypocrisy. There’s even a book about it, “Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” b...

Do you believe in elves? The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund does, and has, for at least the last 40 years. An overflow crowd — and the snowflakes fal...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will host the third annual World Energy Storage Conference Nov. 5 to 8, when scientists, engineers and policy...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania cannot enforce a regulation to make power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, a state c...

U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson didn’t mince words when reflecting on the saga in which the House’s Republican speaker was ousted by a small group of ultra-c...

HARRISBURG — A bill proposed in the state House would drastically increase setback requirements for drilling natural gas wells, likely legislating the...

Getting the nation’s soaring debt under control should be a national priority. But many special-interest groups don’t agree. Last week, newly elected ...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading in high school. I related to Holden Caufield’s teenage disillusionment in the “Catcher in the Rye.” My early political vi...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The weeks-long drama over who would become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives finally ended on Wednesday with the fr...

HARRISBURG — Lead paint, coal furnaces, hallway instruction, classrooms partitioned with teetering stacks of books and supplies, students and teachers...

In less than a month’s time, absent legislative action, the U.S. government will shut down. Meanwhile, Israel, one of the United States’ closest strat...