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HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners took final action Saturday to restructure the state’s process for obtaining antlerless deer ...

Peggy Brown Schneider has announced she is running for election to the office of Elk County commissioner on the Republican ballot. Schneider is servin...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — On an unusually warm morning in late March, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s convoy of black SUVs followed a winding gravel road ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Farming is among the most dangerous work environments in the U.S., with higher fatality rates than emergency responders, according t...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — School districts across the state, including those in Western Pennsylvania, could soon implement new curriculum focusing on politic...

HARRISBURG — Disparate benefits abound in Pennsylvania’s pension system for public school workers, records show. Annual pensions range from a low of 1...

A new effort to redesignate the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area as a national park and preserve has reignited old controversies among prop...

UNIVERSITY PARK — As the world searches for ways to reduce the use of plastics such as single-use plastic bags, a novel study by Penn State researcher...

Nature is full of anomalies. One such anomaly — a very rare type of hawk — was rescued in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago. The York Daily Record reports ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s call for a five-year phase-out of transfers from the Motor License that help to fund state police operations to free up more fundi...

HARRISBURG — A new pair of peregrine falcons is starting a family on top of a Harrisburg city building. As of Thursday morning, the state Department o...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission has a new deputy executive director of administration. Deana Vance, who recently had been serving as the...

PITTSBURGH — Joan T.A. Gabel, president and chief executive of the University of Minnesota System and Twin Cities campus, will become the University o...

HARRISBURG — The 2022 Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) Annual Report is now available. PHRC is required by state law to release an annua...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is accepting applications for $1 billion in grants to help agric...

EMPORIUM — State Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will hold monthly satellite office hours on Thursday, April 6, from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Emporium B...

WASHINGTON — Thursday, U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., introduced three bills to make education more accessible to students with disabilities and help ...

When Heaman Dhimal and Alisha Khadka were children in Nepal, there was one cure for all their childhood illnesses — honey. Now, as biology students at...

CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) District 2 is reminding residents that proper roadway drainage is a partnership b...

HARRISBURG — Zippo lighters have been knocked out of the Coolest Thing Made in PA contest by a tasty, potato filled dumplings — Mrs. T’s Pierogies. Th...