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UNIVERSITY PARK — Managers of public forests in Pennsylvania have been using controlled burns to manage state-owned tracts to promote tree species suc...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest more than $48.6 million this year through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration P...

HARRISBURG — The Shapiro Administration announced Tuesday an upcoming increase to base rates paid to child care providers participating in Pennsylvani...

BENEZETTE — The Keystone Elk Country Alliance has developed the inaugural Jon DeBerti Memorial Internship, “in remembrance of an exceptional Pennsylva...

ST. MARYS — In its 57th year and still growing, the 2023 St. Marys Rotary Club’s annual auction is set for 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The auction takes place ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In Pennsylvania these days, some old department stores don’t fade away. They just trade their sportswear for slot machines. At West...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — In late November, Miles Pfeffer posted a warning on his Instagram page. “Work smart not hard make stupid decisions face stupid co...

STATE COLLEGE — Organizers behind Pennsylvania’s annual THON announced over the weekend they collected more than $15 million — smashing its fundraisin...

Should residents in the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York be concerned that toxic chemicals might have drifted from the site of the Feb. 3 Ohio ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker will soon introduce legislation establishing building regulations for tiny houses. Doing so, said Rep. Darisha Parker, D-Phila...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a first-hand look Thursday at the toll left by a freight train derailm...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — ALancaster Countywildlife rehabilitation center has shared a social media post lamenting the death of “yet another” of the state’s ...

HARRISBURG — Police officials again met with legislators to emphasize the difficulties they’ve faced recruiting and retaining police officers, and kee...

MEDIA — The Gene Capaldi Lens on Litter Photo Contest, a program of the Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC), is an annual statewide photography conte...

Northern Pennsylvania Regional College announced a partnership in the public safety space with the Emergency Response Training and Certification Assoc...

WASHINGTON — This week, U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., announced $75,086,000 in federal funding through the infrastructure la...

The Norfolk Southern rail disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line has led to anxious concern about air quality and potential effe...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Partisan turf wars are heating up in the Pennsylvania Capitol. The latest skirmish is over the contents of a fifth floor conference...

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Mairéad Lynn, spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said the senator underwent successful surgery for prostate cancer....

The north central region of Pennsylvania, which includes McKean, Potter, Elk and Cameron counties, produced the most black bears in the 2022 hunting s...