politics

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden administration is highly adept at hiding how t...

As the remains of Hurricane Idalia headed out to sea after lashing Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, irresponsible members of Congress threatened a ...

Pennsylvania’s relentless gambling expansion has paid off for legislators. The Gaming Control Board reported that the state government collected $2.3 ...

Officials tasked with monitoring the state’s medical marijuana program said this week edibles don’t belong in Pennsylvania’s marketplace. Concerns abo...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Thanks to budget dysfunction in the state Capitol, people filing divorces, estates and many other legal actions across Pennsylvania...

For decades, the daunting and expensive process of securing lucrative government contracts felt insurmountable for small businesses, though a new exec...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced the Surviving Widow(er) Incom...

PITTSBURGH — A sea of overjoyed fans draped in black and gold as far as the eye could see was on its feet, pushing PNC Park to capacity on a crisp Oct...

A new Wall Street Journal national poll over the Labor Day weekend has shaken some observers’ views of the 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The ...

When Northwestern University's football team took to the field this past weekend, it surprisingly did so without the longtime popular head coachPat Fi...

Predators in the wild prowl around the edges of a herd of animals, waiting to pick the vulnerable. They may lie in wait, camouflaged until it is time ...

PORTLAND, N.Y. — What’s contained in the 2023 Farm Bill was on the minds of more than 120 people who attended a House Agriculture Committee listening ...

A Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ruling that an April 2022 home explosion in Plum was not caused by public utility equipment does not eliminat...

Union workers are returning to Wabtec’s Erie plant this week after a 10-week strike. About 1,400 members of UE Locals 506 and 618 ratified a new colle...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — More than 170,000 Pennsylvania residents have enrolled in the new federal student loan program that will limit payments to a percen...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping fro...

Economic fallacies are like horror movie villains. They just won’t stay dead. Last week, the Biden administration announced it had selected 10 drugs f...

An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, that “America is an empire in decline,” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome. The pie...

McKean County 911 will test its weather sirens at noon today in Kane, Port Allegany, Eldred Borough, Otto Township, Smethport and Wetmore Township.

No. 21 Duke and No. 22 Colorado moved into the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Tuesday after scoring the biggest upsets of the opening w...