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The following volunteer fire departments announced their 2024 election results: The Lafayette Volunteer Fire Department 2024 officers are Rob Mitchell...

(TNS) — A York man is going back to jail after he robbed a Harrisburg bank six days after being released on parole for a near-identical bank robbery i...

Members of the Allentown, N.Y., Volunteer Fire Department came to Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department to pick up Engine 151 on Saturday mornin...

Have you ever wondered what the vehicles with blue flashing lights were doing? They are headed to a potential emergency situation. Pennsylvania legisl...

Each December, all over the country and on foreign soil, remembrance wreaths are laid in a precise manner, the volunteers speak the name of the deceas...

Though payment errors for Medicaid and CHIP can add up to tens of billions of dollars every year, the situation is getting better in Pennsylvania. The...

SMETHPORT — A mobile food bank sponsored by St. Elizabeth Church and Second Harvest Food Bank of Erie will be held at the church Dec. 12 for McKean Co...

EMPORIUM — Information is available for Pennsylvania Wilds Region service groups and individuals interested in improving the health of Pennsylvania’s ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has proposed new staffing rules for nursing homes — including requiring registered nurses to be on site 24 hours a...

The Era’s Less Fortunate Fund annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees auction, shined Thursday night with a large turnout and spirited bidding. Ed Ha...

HARRISBURG — The 2022 State of Children’s Health report is showing an increase in the number of children in Pennsylvania without health insurance, but...

Shortly after noon on Monday, a call came out for a forest fire out West Washington Street, beyond Willow Bay, near the New York state line. Corydon a...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Chairman of the U.S. Senat...

Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers have been struggling to make ends meet for years, especially in these rural areas. One reason for the strugg...

PORT ALLEGANY — A home at Chapin’s Blueberry Farm on Rock Run Road in Turtlepoint was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. At 9:37 a.m., Star Hose Com...

Corydon Township, Bradford Township and Lafayette Township volunteer fire departments were dispatched to a forest fire in the Sugar Bay area of the Ki...

All three seats for McKean County commissioners are up for election, and voters will select two candidates at the polls. In order of the ballot, Democ...

Emergency departments (EDs) are essential to the communities they serve and the hospitals they support. They provide exceptional and immediate care to...

Children are once again at the front lines of pandemic-era social service cuts, this time in the form of Medicaid restarting its annual eligibility ch...

Middle-class retirees have the greatest risk of seeing a lifetime of careful savings vanish in a matter of months if they were to experience a sudden ...