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State Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, said state Sen. President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati is correct in withholding data requested by the Pennsylvan...

Republican lawmakers expressed outrage that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map Monday, handing a major victory t...

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer is calling Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide disaster declaration that targets heroin and opioid ...

Bradford physician Dr. M. Javed Akhtar found himself distraught for a week after returning from a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. In the past sev...

A state bill that would ban late-term abortions has the support of local lawmakers and an area pregnancy care center official. Republicans legislators...

EMPORIUM — At Thursday’s meeting, Cameron County Commissioners urged caution on a ballot question to be included during Tuesday’s general election. Th...

One by one, the artifacts of President Barack Obama's rule by administrative fiat are tumbling. The latest is his signature Clean Power Plan that Envi...

Area residents across the four-county region could see a $703 increase in health insurance costs in 2018 under a plan proposed by U.S. sens. Lindsey G...

PORT ALLEGANY — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey spent some time in McKean County Monday, touring Ardagh Glass and touching base with some rural constituents. “Ta...

The eclipse may have been the talk of the region on Monday, but U.S. Sen. Bob Casey was talking about more pressing matters — federal cuts and how the...

WASHINGTON — Eventually, everyone in this town seems to wind up with the word "poor" in front of his or her name. Such a fate is especially likely if ...

Tuesday’s vote to start the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act caused shockwaves throughout the nation that have rippled into the Keystone s...

WASHINGTON — In January 1988, in Ronald Reagan's final State of the Union address, he noisily dropped on a table next to the podium in the House chamb...

HARRISBURG – Legislation authored by state Rep. Matt Gabler, R-DuBois, that clarifies the process of filling leadership positions in municipalities is...

“It’s horrifying. It was innocent people practicing for baseball and then all of a sudden the shots rang out. It’s unbelievable. It’s madness.” That w...

A Democratic state representative from southern Pennsylvania sent out a press release Tuesday questioning the ethics of state Senate President Pro Tem...

One Pennsylvania senator says President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.1 trillion budget is pro-growth, while the other is calling the spending plan propo...

WASHINGTON — When not furrowing their collective brows about creches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering t...

Republicans have put on a clinic on over-promising during the past several years. Even if you were paying only very little attention, you would have g...

President Donald Trump’s tax proposal introduced Wednesday was brief, centered mostly on tax cuts and didn’t give much detail. However, it was enough ...