Local News, News, PA State News
May 14, 2025
UNIONTOWN — Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Dr. Val Arkoosh recently toured the newly opened WVU Medicine Children’s Birthing Center at U...
Local News, News, PA State News
May 14, 2025
HARRISBURG — For many Pennsylvanians, medical debt is a huge yet unavoidable problem. Even with insurance, many find themselves unable to pay the dedu...
Local News, News, PA State News
May 13, 2025
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers (PACHC) shared the critical importance of Pennsylvania’s Community Health Center...
Local News, News
May 09, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: Does everyone need to sign up for Medicare Part A, even if you are ex-military? Or only on Medicaid, regardless of whether you are eligibl...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 07, 2025
Debates over entitlement programs bring out the worst in elected officials, who are typically more concerned with political survival than addressing d...
Local News, News
May 02, 2025
ASK RUSTY: I am writing to ask for your advice on when I should sign up or enroll in a Medicare Plan. I have submitted an early retirement application...
Headlines, Local News, News, ...
Apr 25, 2025
During the current Trump Administration, changes have been proposed or already put in place for many forms of health insurance, including Medicare, Me...
Business, Local News, News
Apr 24, 2025
DuBOIS — Two Penn Highlands Healthcare hospitals received grants from the A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust. Penn Highlands Elk With the $1...
Local News, News, PA State News
Apr 23, 2025
HARRISBURG — Expanded tax credits that make health insurance cheaper for 24.3 million Americans face expiration at the end of 2025, leaving many in th...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2025
If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that i...
Local News, News, PA State News
Apr 10, 2025
HARRISBURG — Rep. Kathy L. Rapp, R-Warren, chair of the House Health Committee, announced the committee has unanimously approved a bill that would exp...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 07, 2025
States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, accor...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 03, 2025
As the old saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and in my decades of experience in healthcare that absolutely rings true. T...
Business, Local News, News
Mar 14, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: Is there any way I can get out of paying the $185/month I am told will be taken out of my Social Security for Medicare Part B when I turn ...
Local News, News, PA State News
Feb 28, 2025
HARRISBURG — The Department of Aging has received flat funding for the past six years. Before the House Appropriations Committee, Secretary Jason Kavu...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 21, 2025
Taxpayers spent $74.5 million to help develop the prostate cancer-fighting drug Xtandi, but its sky-high sticker price is limiting access to patients ...
Business, Content, Daily Headlines, ...
Feb 03, 2025
The Bradford Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bradford Regional Medical Center, hosted its first local in-person event since the COVID pa...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 20, 2025
Starstruck adulation is the last response you would expect rational, compassionate people to give to the acts of a cold-blooded killer. But such is th...
Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
Jan 20, 2025
The looming possibility of federal cuts to Medicaid would hit rural areas in the region particularly hard, according to a study by the Georgetown Univ...
Business, Local News, News
Jan 03, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I'm 72 years old with 20 years of military service. I am retired collecting Social Security, my military pension and state retirement bene...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
Local News, Local Sports, Outdoors
June 14, 2025
Summer is one of my favorite times of year. I love fishing and coaching baseball. However, what I love to do most in the summertime is setting up trai...
Lifestyles
June 14, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I am a mother of six and a grandma to four. We are a close family and enjoy each other's company. My mom is nearly 80. For reasons I could ...
Lifestyles, Local News
June 14, 2025
Father’s Day is a special time to recognize and celebrate the dads, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, and all the men who play vital roles in our famili...
Round the Square
June 14, 2025
DADS: This Sunday is Father's Day, the day marked to honor one's father, along with paternal bonds, fatherhood and the influence of fathers in society...
