politics

Let’s say you hate Donald Trump and really, really, really don’t want him to become president of the United States again. How do you prevent that? Wel...

Pennsylvania has 2,560 local governments, besides 67 counties and 500 school districts. Each of those governments also has authorities, boards and com...

HARRISBURG — The Shapiro Administration will adopt an updated Environmental Justice (EJ) Policy, which expands environmental safeguards throughout the...

Judith Bodamer of Bradford has been named vice president for business affairs at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and will begin her new role ...

The Silver Rose Program made its way through McKean and Potter counties last weekend, making stops Saturday at St. Francis Church in Bradford and St. ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, America was brought together by tragedy. It is important to remember what happened and the lives of those who were lost, to share e...

Police departments in Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee and Minneapolis provide expensive security details for mayors and other city officials even as th...

Kamala Harris is one of the most prominent people in the United States, with the potential that at any moment she could inherit some of the most fears...

PAPERS: We have some more to bring you from the old microfilm of the M’Kean Orbit, the Smethport-based newspaper that began in 1849. Early on, this wa...

Despite low numbers and several inexperienced runners, the Bradford boys cross country team returns back to action this season, looking to improve upo...

About one-tenth of the amount of money the federal government alleges the Hvizdzak brothers bilked out of investors is being turned over to the U.S. D...

The evidence continues to accumulate that America’s nonprofit sector is failing the country in some basic ways. Specifically, it is not doing enough t...

TOPS #16 The weekly meeting of TOPS #16 was held on Aug. 23, by leader Vickie Johnson. Members recited the TOPS pledge. The song, “When you’re smiling...

Public school governance in Pennsylvania often is a train wreck because even though things aren’t what they used to be, state law covering school boar...

About 110 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” which certainly is true of go...

DUBLIN (AP) — The Irish economy is getting a boost from the Notre Dame football game in Dublin. The Pittsburgh Steelers are benefitting, too. The NFL ...

Some sportsmen's league leaders are pushing for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to allow the use of semi-automatic rifles for big game hunting. Membe...

Many waterways in Pennsylvania are devastated by acid mine drainage, a man-made legacy from coal mining that leaves some waterways devoid of aquatic a...

By design, including structure and funding, police are arms of the government. As such they are supposed to be subject to civilian control, but rarely...

It was Aug. 24, 2021, that, in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s meltdown, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became Gov. Hochul, to shape her own record and legacy in Ne...