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It’s a new year, and it’s starting with promise as gas prices have fallen again. Average gasoline prices in Pennsylvania fell 2.4 cents per gallon in ...

(TNS) — The arrival of 2024 brings a 3.5% pay raise for Gov. Josh Shapiro and other executive branch officials and judges across Pennsylvania. Under s...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Financial Aid staff will offer three free completion workshops this month for the Free Application for Federa...

RIDGWAY — The Elk County commissioners approved a 2024 budget of more than $12.47 million, a sending plan that does not include a tax increase and wil...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My New Year’s resolution 12 months ago was to write fewer columns about Donald Trump. That well-intended goal met the same end as m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...

The United Way of the Bradford Area is currently accepting applications for the first quarter of Quarterly Impact funding for 2024. Deadline to apply ...

BRADFORD : It’s a new year, and we thought it would be a good time to revisit a description of Bradford from a 1906 book about the development of the ...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman was sent to McKean County Jail after an arrest for allegedly shoplifting $137 worth of merchandise at The Dollar Tree. Do...

COUDERSPORT — Mark Redcay was standing in a large warehouse-like room at God’s Country Ministries at the Free Methodist Church on East 2nd St. going t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Last year at this time, 85% of economists in one poll predicted a recession this year — and that was an optimistic take compared to t...

Rural EMS agencies respond to, and train for, more drug-related calls. But they can’t always get people the help they need. In northwest Pennsylvania,...

ERIE – National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (National Fuel) has submitted its annual Purchased Gas Cost filing as required by the Pennsylvania P...

The Tony Dolan Family Memorial Ski for Cancer benefit, returning to Westline in 2024 for its 45th year, had been the American Cancer Society’s longest...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County commissioners in a special meeting Friday approved next year’s budget with no tax increase. “The commissioners worked ha...

WASHINGTON — It’s the end of 2023 and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has released a list of what he’s accomplished for Pennsylvania — and it’s a lot. Casey he...

(TNS) — The time to decide how millions of electric vehicles plugging into local grids will impact customers’ monthly bills is now, when there are onl...

“YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED. DOWN WITH ISRAEL.” Those were the words displayed at the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, along with a motif of a drowni...

Commuters may want high-speed rail — but at what price? Apparently $3 billion. That’s what the U.S. Department of Transportation committed this month ...

The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials. The former head of the National Institutes of ...