public and administrative law

Four candidates are running for two open seats on Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, one of the state’s two intermediate appellate courts. The Superior Co...

The silence from the office of U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson on recent events at the federal level has been deafening. The president’s decision to pull out...

Pennsylvania’s federal lawmakers are split down party lines with the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Republicans U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey...

It will be a history lesson Eliot Ness Fest attendees won’t soon forget. When the second annual celebration of Prohibition Era justice comes to Couder...

Robert Mueller is often called an honorable man but he isn’t. He once violated separation of powers and refused to back up. Bureaucrats under his comm...

Two candidates are seeking the Republican nomination for the office of McKean County district attorney, incumbent Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer and Phi...

WASHINGTON – Ending more than 20 years of practice, the Trump administration will allow U.S. citizens to sue over property confiscated from them in Cu...

KANE — Phil Clabaugh, chief public defender and former assistant district attorney, has announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for ...

Investigations into two September crashes in which people were killed are getting closer to concluding. On Friday, in response to a request from The E...

With polling sites ready to accommodate citizens exercising their right to vote today, many election officials likely don’t know what to expect for th...

HISTORY : OK, so we’re kind of enamored with old copies of The Era. We went back to the turn of last century to find some items to share with our read...

WASHINGTON -- No Supreme Court nominee is a completely safe bet. No one -- not even the nominee himself or herself -- knows for certain how he or she ...

WASHINGTON — Coming soon to a cinema near you — you can make this happen; read on — is a bite-your-nails true-story thriller featuring heroes, villain...

WASHINGTON — "An attack on our country," a clearly agitated President Trump said of the search of his attorney's office and home. Of special counsel R...

Impeachment is the nuclear option undergirding the separation of powers framework of American government. An antique vestige borrowed from British tra...

Separate trials have been granted for two Ridgway residents facing the death penalty for the 2016 bludgeoning death of a 5-year-old boy. Scott Murphy,...

RIDGWAY — The opioid epidemic has struck the region hard, and drug task forces have been stepping up to not only bust sellers, but to protect the publ...

How the redrawing of the state's congressional map would impact the wide-reaching Fifth District is anyone’s guess. But Dr. G. Terry Madonna, director...

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

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...