News
Sep 20, 2022
KANE — The Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum (R-BFF), which takes place on October 13, announced that Thursday, September 29, is the last date to register fo...
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Jul 07, 2022
MONGAHELA — In Washington County Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding was joined by Penn State Extension Area Master Gardener Coordinator ...
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Jul 06, 2022
MONONGAHELA — State officials on Wednesday discussed the threat that the spotted lanternfly poses and shared information and resources to help Pennsyl...
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Mar 26, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture plans to expand the state’s spotted lanternfly quarantine area to include 11 more counti...
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Dec 11, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — A newly identified mite may be a biological control on the invasive tree-of-heaven, a favorite host tree for spotted lanternflies. ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 19, 2021
Pennsylvania is a state often associated with industry. Steel and glass. Coal and gas. But the Keystone State is just as famous for its nature. The U....
News, PA State News
Sep 08, 2021
Although many homeowners have reported a greatly diminished population of the spotted lanternfly around their properties, the invaders from Asia known...
Local News, Online Features
Mar 18, 2021
HARRISBURG — Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding on Wednesday encouraged business travelers to join more than 1.2 million people at 26,000-plus comp...
Local News, Online Features
Mar 11, 2021
Cameron County has been added to Pennsylvania’s spotted lanternfly quarantine zone. The county was one of eight added to the list this year, Agricultu...
Local News, Online Features
Feb 23, 2021
The invasive spotted lanternfly has been found in Pennsylvania and 8 other northeastern states since its discovery in 2014. As of May 2020, there are ...
Bradford, Local News, News
Jan 22, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK — As the spotted lanternfly extension associate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Heather Leach often receives calls a...
Local News
Sep 03, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — Like the spotted lanternfly that has a penchant for it, the rapidly growing Ailanthus altissima tree — better known as tree of heave...
Bradford, Local News, News
Apr 06, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — An early spring brings warmth, daffodils and outside play. It also signals — to the chagrin of many property owners across Pennsylva...
Bradford, Local News, News
Feb 28, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — For residents of southeastern Pennsylvania, winter provides a brief respite from the spotted lanternfly, an insect invader that has ...
Bradford, Local News, News
Dec 27, 2019
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The state Department of Agriculture hit a milestone the first week of December: It handed out more than 1 million spotted lanternfly...
Local News
Oct 08, 2019
UNIVERSITY PARK — A $7.3 million grant awarded to Penn State will support an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers as they conduc...
Local News
Oct 01, 2019
UNIVERSITY PARK — Identifying potential spotted lanternfly stomping grounds beyond Pennsylvania’s current 14-county quarantine zone is the focus of a ...
Local News
May 31, 2019
HARRISBURG – Working to protect the state’s food supply and the agriculture industry, Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, chairman of the House Agricul...
Local News, News
Nov 03, 2018
STATE COLLEGE — There is nothing quite like the splendor of a live Christmas tree to bring the beauty and amazing scents of the outdoors into homes fo...
News, Round the Square
Sep 12, 2018
PESTS : Tree of Heaven. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? However, the Center for Private Forests at Penn State tells us that it is not. It’s a fast growing...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
