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With security concerns at the forefront, Pennsylvania Department of State is looking to counties to replace outdated machines in the coming years with...

COUDERSPORT — Potter County officials continue to work with regional, state and national organizations to bring up-to-date information and best practi...

School districts across the region are seeing a mixed bag when it comes to state funding under a spending plan proposed by Gov. Tom Wolf this week. Th...

How the redrawing of the state's congressional map would impact the wide-reaching Fifth District is anyone’s guess. But Dr. G. Terry Madonna, director...

State Rep. Martin Causer and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati have concerns over Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget unveiled Tuesday. The tentat...

Republican lawmakers expressed outrage that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map Monday, handing a major victory t...

EAST SMETHPORT — Pennsylvania Attorney-General Josh Shapiro met with McKean County law enforcement officials at a “Coffee with Cops” event Tuesday mor...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro will visit the region Tuesday, making stops in East Smethport, Coudersport and Emporium. “Having a state of...

Pennsylvania received a “F” grade in financial literacy –– and that doesn’t surprise Bradford Area School District Superintendent Katy Pude. Champlain...

RED HOUSE, N.Y. — Two new playgrounds will be built in Allegany State Park as part of a $2.6 million commitment for 12 new or improved playgrounds at ...

In politics, Democrats and Republicans aren’t likely to agree on much. But Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf, state Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and state ...

A state bill that would ban late-term abortions has the support of local lawmakers and an area pregnancy care center official. Republicans legislators...

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale thinks the state’s child welfare system is broken, and the head of McKean County’s Children and Youth S...

It’s something that local, state and federal officials all agree on: President Trump’s decision to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergen...

Without a state funding appropriation soon, around 900 students at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford could be on the hook for about $11,000 mor...

Bradford City Mayor Tom Riel was elected to the position of at-large director for the Pennsylvania Municipal League during the association’s annual bu...

State Rep. Matt Gabler, R-DuBois, was among lawmakers who voted Wednesday to address debt associated with the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital...

Many students at Bradford, Smethport and Otto-Eldred area school districts are among the smartest in Pennsylvania, having have scored above the state ...

A prolonged state budget impasse could jeopardize programs ––but state Rep. Martin Causer says the House of Representatives is diligently working on a...

A group of state lawmakers unveiled a plan Tuesday that state Rep. Matt Gabler, R-DuBois, says would fund the state’s spending plan without the need t...