social services

WASHINGTON — A policy change is needed to help emergency personnel who respond to train derailments, and Pennsylvania’s senators are lauding a new pro...

HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate passed spending legislation hours ahead of Saturday’s start of a new fiscal year, but they ...

Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and the Church of the Ascension coordinated a joint venture to help combat local food insecurity. A group of o...

It’s no secret that emergency medical services are struggling to make ends meet. On Tuesday, the state House passed a bill to boost mileage reimbursem...

PORT ALLEGANY — At Port Allegany Area School District, the Pastor Randy Headley Memorial Awards for Community Service were presented to Kason Stake, g...

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...

SMETHPORT — A mobile food bank sponsored by St. Elizabeth Church and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Erie will be held on June 13 at St. Elizabeth Chu...

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

The NORWICH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT in Crosby is temporarily suspending Bingo effective immediately. The Department advises any updates/changes will...

Five homes are now deemed uninhabitable following a devastating five-alarm fire that occurred Monday night. Shortly after 11 p.m., calls to the 911 Em...

On an average day people don’t typically think about the worst happening at any moment, but then a sudden pain fills your chest, a family member has a...

CULTIVATING KINDNESS. That’s the theme for the 2023 National Nursing Home Week where we celebrate skilled nursing staff who care for the residents in ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services wants the state’s attorney general to recoup $7.3 million from 189 home-health and ot...

VOLUNTEERS. Not the football team. It’s National Volunteer Week. First, a thank you to all those in the community who give their time to others — it m...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced that a wildfire was reported in Allegheny National Forest on the afternoon of April 12. The wildfire respon...

PITTSBURGH — Medicaid benefits for Pennsylvania residents are in limbo as temporary protections implemented during the pandemic end for the first time...

Communities across Pennsylvania struggle with an emergency of their own as they try to provide adequate emergency services amid rising demands, declin...

PORT ALLEGANY — In January 2016, Fire Chief Dana Spitler contacted James Young, Director of Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center (SHCTC), to d...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man will serve probation and perform community service for switching barcodes on items at Walmart in Bradford. Recently in McKe...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey, D-PA, held a hearing entitled “Uplifting Families, Workers, and O...