News
Dec 19, 2022
A volunteer of the McKean County SPCA asked us to run “Special Gift” again as a reminder of the downside to giving a pet as a gift to somebody not rea...
News, PA State News
May 01, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — With thousands of lakes, ponds and sections of streams acrossPennsylvaniastocked with untold thousands of fish of unknown species b...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Mar 17, 2022
Listed below are the proposed dates and meeting places for the preseason stocking. These days are tentative and are subject to change in the event of ...
News, Outdoors
Feb 11, 2022
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has made changes to its stocking plans because of environmental changes or upgrading waters to wild trout ma...
News, Outdoors
Feb 01, 2022
With the calendar — and assuredly the weather — stating that it’s the dead of winter, it’s hopeful to note that in only about three weeks the Pennsylv...
News, Outdoors, PA State News
Feb 01, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will accept walk-up volunteers at trout stockings again this year, just as the agency did...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 01, 2021
By the mid-1800s, the brook trout populations native to the eastern streams of the United States were under duress from overfishing and heavy logging,...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Apr 01, 2020
It’s going to be a different kind of fishing season this year for Pennsylvania anglers. Tim Schaeffer, executive director of the PA Fish & Boat Commis...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Mar 26, 2020
Everyone has been impacted by COVID-19. The situation has schools closed and kids and parents are at home together. No doubt there will be those who w...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Mar 07, 2019
Spring is a time of renewal. The grip of winter, such as it has been lately, will soon give way to wildflowers, warmer temperatures, and of course tro...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
May 03, 2018
Most anglers you talk to have a favorite spot where they like to go opening day. Well-stocked streams can have an angler catching the limit in short o...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Mar 31, 2018
SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Continuing reconstruction work on Red House Lake in Allegany State Park will prevent fishermen awaiting the start of New York’s trou...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Mar 08, 2018
Spring is just around the corner. That’s a topic of conversation these days. It’s a good feeling and one of renewal watching nature rebound from the r...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 01, 2017
I had just entered Wal-Mart with my wife when I saw a gentleman leaving with a cart loaded with fishing equipment. Rods, tackle boxes and other intere...
News, Round the Square
Dec 10, 2016
SPECIAL GIFT: A volunteer with the McKean County SPCA brought in this poem to remind residents of the “family members” they may be forgetting as the t...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
