politics

OLEAN, N.Y. — Thanks to support from the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation’s Community Fund and the Bill & Cathy Fraser grant program at the Uni...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will spend billions of dollars in the coming years to expand broadband, but unclear rules and a lack of transparency could c...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A group that fought in court to keep a statue of Christopher Columbus in a south Philadelphia park and to have a wooden box coveri...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More private schools across Western Pennsylvania are starting nursing programs to meet student and community needs as the country’s...

Obeying the law is the lowest common denominator of basic citizenship. Yet many politicians and government officeholders often portray legality as the...

President Joe Biden’s fall at the end of the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony was a brief event. He tripped, got helped up, and walked off under ...

As Pennsylvania’s frontline leader for business growth, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s mission is advocating for policies to make...

CYCLONE — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is reminding area motorists that a McKean County bridge replacement project that beg...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that takes a gruesome toll on humans when added to the supply of illegal opioids, will be moved to...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. senators split their votes on the debt ceiling bill Thursday night, with Sen. Bob Casey voting for i...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The United Steelworkers said it intends to file paperwork Monday calling for a state-supervised labor election that could unionize ...

Pennsylvania is one of four states that differentiate themselves from their 46 American brethren by use of a different word. Like Kentucky, Massachuse...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Thank heaven, our self-induced crisis is all but over. The House and Senate have approved the compromise deal between Speaker Kevin...

”Monopoly money” is a term for useless paper notes. Inflation was so bad in 1930s Weimar Germany, it took literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy grocerie...

A groundbreaking ceremony, seven years in the making, to rehabilitate and renovate the housing units on South Center Street and Brookline Court, was h...

WASHINGTON — Wednesday, U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., introduced legislation to include qualifying motorcycles among the ...

U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Centre County, was among all but one Western Pennsylvania House members who voted Wednesday night in favor of a bipartisan...

HARRISBURG — Despite the proliferation of anti-overdose drugs and fentanyl test strips in recent years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle believe i...

LEBANON (AP) — Two young boys were playing with kittens in their backyard when shots rang out at a home in eastern Pennsylvania, killing both children...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The president America needs is, unfortunately, Czech, and the Constitution rules him out. He is also, sadly for the world, dead. Vá...