Local News, Online Features
Oct 19, 2019
Fentanyl has had a deadly impact on Pennsylvania, and state Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale on Wednesday said more needs to be done to prevent ov...
Local News, Online Features
Oct 12, 2019
The fight to combat the opioid epidemic in the region has seen significant progress, but local officials caution the war on drugs is far from over. No...
Local News
Aug 31, 2019
Aug. 31 has been designated as “Overdose Awareness Day” for 2019. The day is to remember those who have lost their lives and their families who are le...
Olean
Aug 02, 2019
OLEAN N.Y. — Winning Olean Back added 12 names to an area list of those killed by drug overdoses and addiction this year, but those who gathered Satur...
Health, Inspiration
Jun 03, 2019
What do Sigmund Freud, Prince, Janis Joplin and Pennsylvania-bred rapper Mac Miller all have in common? They all died from an opioid overdose. Images ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Feb 27, 2019
The tide may be turning in the opioid epidemic that has plagued the region the past few years. Drug overdose deaths in local counties last year were d...
Crime, Local News, News
Jan 04, 2019
A Bradford man’s alleged overdose has led to criminal charges against him and a woman who was present while he smoked marijuana in front of a three-ye...
News
Jan 03, 2019
The opioid crisis continued to plague Tioga County in 2018. According to the department of Health and Human Services figures, Pennsylvania ranks fifth...
Crime, Local News, News, ...
Dec 18, 2018
COUDERSPORT — Jury selection for a trial against Oakley Mulkin, accused in the May 12, 2016, overdose death of a fellow Shinglehouse man, is set for J...
News, Online Features, PA State News
Dec 15, 2018
HARRISBURG — Eighteen kits of naloxone were distributed Thursday from the McKean County State Health Center, the department of health reported on Frid...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 07, 2018
When a family or friends of an overdose victim are in a crisis situation of reviving the individual, time is of the essence in saving a life. The admi...
Local News, News
Oct 26, 2018
More than 200 pounds of medication was discarded in McKean County’s unused medication drop boxes during this quarter, District Attorney Stephanie Vett...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Oct 20, 2018
A recent report from the PA Health Care Cost Containment Council revealed that Pennsylvania hospitals recorded approximately 36,712 opioid-related hos...
Local News, News
Jun 23, 2018
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Inc. (ADAS) will be hosting the Road to Recovery Community event from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday at the Grace Lutheran C...
Crime, Local News, News
Feb 15, 2018
JOHNSONBURG — Two Elk County women are behind bars, charged with drug delivery resulting in the death of a 24-year-old Wilcox woman last year. Allison...
Local News, News, Online Features
Feb 15, 2018
RIDGWAY — Two women have been charged in Elk County in the fentanyl overdose death of 24-year-old Kaitlyn Buerk last March — thought to be the first t...
Local News, News
Jan 18, 2018
COUDERSPORT — Cole Memorial Hospital has been named the sole “centralized coordinating entity” for the receipt and distribution of naloxone to law enf...
Local News, News
Jan 17, 2018
EMPORIUM — During a regional visit Tuesday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro met with law enforcement officials in Emporium to discuss effor...
Health
Dec 14, 2017
The opioid and prescription drug problem in our nation, and particularly in Pennsylvania, has reached epidemic levels. In fact, in December 2016 the C...
Crime, News
Sep 02, 2017
A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail after allegedly overdosing while huffing canned air in an alley off Lincoln Avenue on Friday. Jeremiah Ashly S...
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...
