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Nearly 18 months after Swift Current Energy first proposed its sprawling Black Cherry Wind project for McKean County, commissioners drafted a county-l...

SMETHPORT — Commissioners tabled McKean County’s proposed wind energy ordinance during their regular meeting Tuesday, citing continued feedback to be ...

SMETHPORT — Pennsylvania law protects private property rights by preventing municipalities from completely banning a legitimate type of land use from ...

Interested residents can help shape the final version of McKean County’s wind energy ordinance at a public hearing to be held at 6 p.m. Thursday in th...

In August 2024, Keating Township supervisors Dave McClain, John Anderson and Ryan Herzog adopted a protective ordinance that attempted to balance prop...

LAWNS, WEEDS, HISTORY: On a beautifully sunny day in Bradford, Jerry Oliphant stopped in to drop the following reminder: “To those who poison their la...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The heads of Pennsylvania’s legislative LGBTQ+ Caucuses are calling on the General Assembly to enact a non-discriminatory statute o...

HARRISBURG — People can sue to challenge a city’s gun restrictions even if they have not been charged with violating them, Pennsylvania’s highest cour...

Complaints about an unruly neighbor on High Street in Bradford were a focal point at the Bradford City Council meeting Tuesday. When visitors at the m...

SMETHPORT — Two of McKean County’s departments are looking for new leaders. The director of veterans affairs, Zach Pearson, and the director of the pl...

Say the word “gun” and you can instantly divide people. Some want to enact laws and restrictions in hopes of curtailing violent crimes. Some are just ...

BIRD FRIENDLY BUILDINGS : Glass collisions kill up to 1 billion birds in the United States each year. Both common and rare species are at risk. Recent...

Republican state legislators often champion local government control, as when they insist on sending most proceeds from the natural gas local impact f...

At a quiet meeting Monday evening, Foster Township supervisors approved several measures related to ambulance coverage, the fire and police department...

COUDERSPORT — Potter County Commissioners are moving forward with a new Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance tax abatement program to support ...

Eldred Borough posted a new ordinance to social media Thursday, making residents aware that feeding feral cats is no longer allowed within the borough...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners on Tuesday authorized the county Redevelopment Authority to file an application for $242,667 in block gran...

Stop — in the name of the law, or a potential law, anyway. Local residents have noticed a covered stop sign at the corner of Marilyn Horne Way and Mai...

Bradford City officials are still looking at a property tax increase in 2020. On Tuesday, city council passed on first reading a 2020 millage ordinanc...

Wages for Bradford City workers for 2020 were approved by council on first reading Tuesday night. Starting with the governing body, the salaries for t...