politics

SMETHPORT — The McKean County commissioners in a special meeting Friday approved next year’s budget with no tax increase. “The commissioners worked ha...

WASHINGTON — It’s the end of 2023 and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has released a list of what he’s accomplished for Pennsylvania — and it’s a lot. Casey he...

(TNS) — The time to decide how millions of electric vehicles plugging into local grids will impact customers’ monthly bills is now, when there are onl...

(TNS) — Over 140 Slippery Rock University students will kick off 2024 by performing in London’s New Year’s Day Parade. The state school’s marching ban...

The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials. The former head of the National Institutes of ...

The world is becoming increasingly electric and connected, transitioning towards a future powered by batteries and running on electronics that will re...

A Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attac...

(TNS) — Two Pittsburgh companies are locked in a tight race to build autonomous trucks for the U.S. military. Neya Systems and Carnegie Robotics have ...

A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural co...

Over the last year, Pennsylvania set out in earnest to meet federal goals for the electric vehicle transition. It’s been an expensive and complex proc...

From the very beginning of Mason Martin’s now nearly four-month ordeal, the family has held up a particular bit of scripture, one the senior quarterba...

ATLANTA (AP) — For election officials preparing for the 2024 presidential election, the list of security challenges just keeps growing. Many of the co...

United Way Student Ambassadors at Bradford Area High School announced the success of their recent Penny Wars fundraiser, which raised $500 to contribu...

DENVER (AP) — There were times when Jo Overstreet felt all alone as a standout flag football player on boys teams growing up in Texas. Sure, she was a...

This summer, volunteers trained at Moraine State Park to collect samples of potential algae blooms and assess erosion in streams in Allegheny County p...

(TNS) — A Bucks County conservative activist who ran for lieutenant governor is facing assault charges in connection with an underage drinking party a...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Western Pennsylvania's congressional delegation recently delivered a message to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Any prisone...

(TNS) — Pennsylvania wants to make changes to its Medicaid programs that would bring groceries to the door of an expecting parent in need or help a fo...

In the criminal homicide case against Frederick Raymond “Ricky” Camejo Jr., the last day to plead has been rescheduled yet again, this time to 1 p.m. ...

HISTORY: February 1924. The month probably doesn’t stand out in the minds of many. However, as we were looking back through some old copies of The Era...