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HARRISBURG — A push continues to end Pennsylvania’s restriction on Sunday hunting but as sportsmen find conditional support among farmers, there remai...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A divided state House on Tuesday passed a bill that would have Pennsylvania do something all its nearby neighbors have done — ban t...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Anyone planning to do their student teaching in 2024-25 better set their alarms to be ready around 9 a.m. today when applications f...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation aimed at helping the nation’s No. 2 natural gas-producing state attrac...

William McGill, Clinton County, announced his write-in candidacy for the Democratic nomination for state senator in the General Assembly – 25th Distri...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Negotiations are ongoing between the House and Senate to establish an annual fee for owners of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles...

Recently, Sen. Bernie Sanders, socialist gadfly, proposed that the U.S. federal government should mandate a four-day, 32-hour work week. Before we con...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With immigration shaping the elections that will decide control of Congress, Democrats are trying to outflank Republicans and convin...

HARRISBURG – Following years of inaction by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) to fix a broken broadcasting policy, Reps. Ma...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was sentenced Thursday for crimes of which he was convicted by a jury in 2018. President Judge John Pavlock sentenced Roger...

HARRISBURG —Erasure of $4 million in medical debt for thousands of residents could be done without them even knowing until after the fact, according t...

When I became secretary of the commonwealth, I vowed to visit all 67 county election offices to hear firsthand about the challenges they face when run...

Though it didn’t gain traction last session, one legislator is again pushing for mandating that health insurance covers telehealth-related costs in Pe...

LEWIS RUN — An electrical failure has been ruled the cause of a blaze at 7:03 p.m. March 31 on Keating Avenue in Port Allegany Borough. Lewis Run-base...

President Joe Biden laughably passes himself off as a budget hawk. The soaring national debt and recent spending bills prove such assertions to be a g...

As executive director of the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau, Linda Devlin didn’t just leave big shoes to fill, she left “Tracks Across the ...

BRISTOL, Va. (TNS) — In the small Appalachian city of Bristol, City Council member Neal Osborne left a meeting on the morning of Jan. 3 and rushed him...

United Way of the Bradford Area is currently accepting applications for its second round of Quarterly Impact funding for 2024. Deadline to apply is Ma...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s lobbying to bring the NFL draft to Pittsburgh didn’t start with a letter he sent to Roger Goodell last month. I...

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