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NATIONAL LITTER STUDY: Results of The Keep America Beautiful 2020 National Litter Study have been released. The study provides a detailed understandin...

WOMEN’S HISTORY: March is National Women’s History Month, which traces its roots to March 8, 1857. At that time, women from various New York City fact...

COUDERSPORT: Cindy Ross, a regular contributor to Pennsylvania magazine , spent a weekend in Coudersport, and the experience made it into the Jan/Feb ...

HARRISBURG — Taking action to address the findings of its recently released statewide study of financial exploitation of older adults, the Pennsylvani...

Across the 15 years in which the gas industry has made Pennsylvania the nation’s second-largest producer, the state Legislature has taken extraordinar...

What does it mean to be grateful? At its root, it’s a dual action, a combination of appreciating the good things in life and recognizing that someone ...

It will be news to many Pennsylvanians that serious discussions are going on in the state about a significant increase in the tax on gasoline and on-r...

Pandemic-weary America eagerly awaits the arrival of at least two new COVID-19 vaccines to finally turn the corner back to more normal life. Yet a ser...

QUIET STRESS FROM COVID : Half of Pennsylvanians say they have suffered from ‘quiet stress’ this year, according to a survey conducted by American Add...

With many Americans still terrified of the novel coronavirus, it’s small wonder that the aviation industry is dealing with financial turbulence. Indus...

Virtual PA Library Advocacy Day was Monday. Facing the potential of huge cuts in state funding, local libraries need patrons to go to bat on their beh...

UNIVERSITY PARK — A recent study, led by researchers at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State, is the first to examine the rel...

SURVEY: Folks in rural parts of Pennsylvania may be more apt to wax poetic about the beauty of nature than people who live in cities, but a study has ...

No new cases of COVID-19 were reported in McKean, Elk, Potter or Cameron counties on Wednesday, according to state Department of Health data released ...

BIRDS: We received a call on Tuesday to share some birding news. A reader from Limestone called to tell us he had orioles and a hummingbird stop to vi...

CORONAVIRUS MEANS HIGHER RATE OF ABANDONED PETS: Over 1 in 10 Pennsylvania pet owners would be unable to afford their pets if they lose their job, acc...

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced Friday that a series of studies conducted over a two-year period...

This time of year white-tailed deer fawns grab our attention. After all, they are cute, fun to watch, and right now these delicate newborns seem to be...

(TNS) — Academic studies and surveys regularly show that large percentages of Americans know very little about civics. But more alarming is that many ...

As cliché as it may sound, it’s also a fact: Doing good is good for everyone. Altruism is beneficial to your mental health, physical well-being and se...