News
Nov 10, 2021
HARRISBURG (AP) — An order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out ...
News
Nov 10, 2021
HARRISBURG — An order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wedne...
News
Nov 05, 2021
With tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees ordered to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2021
SCRANTON (AP) — Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public inf...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 19, 2021
In an age in which religiosity is waning, the notion that a person would forgo a medical treatment, perhaps even a life-saving one, because of sincere...
News, PA State News
Oct 13, 2021
STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — All of Penn State's faculty and staff atUniversity Parkare now required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 byDec. 8, in order t...
News
Sep 29, 2021
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature voted Wednesday to again extend hundreds of regulatory waivers that Gov. Tom Wolf’s admi...
News
Sep 28, 2021
A bill that would allow parents in Pennsylvania to exempt their children from wearing a mask at school cleared a state Senate committee on Tuesday as ...
Sep 25, 2021
Articles have been published in the Times Herald voicing displeasure with unmasked and unvaccinated individuals, and attacking our county leaders who ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 17, 2021
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I was leaving town last week for a long-overdue golf reunion with some buddies when President Joe Biden issued his vaccine mandate o...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 13, 2021
Two months after basically declaring the battle against COVID-19 was over, President Joe Biden is answering a resurgence of the virus with a vaccine m...
News
Sep 07, 2021
A statewide mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools went into effect Tuesday with some school districts in open defiance of the Wolf administration, whi...
Sep 03, 2021
The Republican leader of the state Senate and a group of parents filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn the Wolf administration's new mask mandate...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 30, 2021
In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Gov. Tom Wolf declared an emergency. It was the right move at the time. That does not, however, me...
News
Aug 26, 2021
Whether students and staff should be required to mask up in Pennsylvania schools will remain a local decision, at least for now, after top Republican ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 23, 2021
How is it that a commonsense health protocol — the wearing of a mask — has become a figurative hill to die on when refusing to wear a mask actually co...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 04, 2021
There’s a handy device for determining status in American society — whether someone feels obligated to abide by his or her own COVID rules or not. The...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 22, 2021
In much of America, vaccine hesitancy has turned into vaccine defiance. Several states have banned or are considering banning demands by businesses th...
News
Jul 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — United States Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., on Tuesday introduce...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2021
Herd immunity from the COVID-19 virus is the place we want to be. The quickest and most efficient way of getting there is widespread vaccination. Acro...
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...
