Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 12, 2023
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission takes a lot of flak, especially at this time of year. It happens like clockwork. While other people are strugglin...
News, PA State News
Jan 04, 2023
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Motorists traveling the Pennsylvania Turnpike will not only pay 5% more in tolls starting Sunday, Jan. 8, but will face more aggres...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 27, 2022
Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability. They won’t increase the state government’s percentage of school funding be...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 13, 2022
Toll scofflaw legislation is easy, but hard work is needed on other PennDOT, turnpike problems Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a new law last week g...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 07, 2022
Pennsylvania is filled with natural beauty. The rivers. The forests. The mountains. The state is teeming with wildlife from the valleys of the southwe...
News, PA State News
Jul 18, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The amount of uncollected Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went up dramatically in the past year — nearly 48% — but the agency says that...
PA State News
Jul 12, 2022
As a result of court rulings and negotiations between Gov. Tom Wolf and Republicans in the General Assembly, the plan to charge tolls on nine bridges ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 06, 2022
When an appellate court on Thursday shot down the Wolf administration’s plan to impose tolls on nine major highway bridges, it added urgency to the ne...
News, PA State News
Jun 30, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Commonwealth Court issued a ruling Thursday declaring the state Department of Transportation violated the law when it initiated...
News, PA State News
May 01, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Public hearings will be held this week on two of the more controversial bridges on the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s ...
Lifestyle
Apr 16, 2022
TOPS #623 SMETHPORT — The weekly meeting of TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY #623 met on Tuesday evening with weigh-ins at the East Smethport United Christian...
News, PA State News
Jan 23, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Turnpike is reviewing proposals for a contract to process toll payments and expand the ways motorists can pay. The...
News, PA State News
Jan 03, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The numbers are large and sound awful: The Pennsylvania Turnpike failed to collect just under $105 million in tolls last year, up a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 27, 2021
PennDOT’s bid to toll nine interstate bridges across the commonwealth as part of a public-private partnership still has several hurdles to clear. But ...
News, PA State News
Nov 23, 2021
WASHINGTON — Rep. Glenn Thompson said a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s virtual briefing on proposed tolls for Interstate 80 bridges was “...
News
Nov 17, 2021
HARRISBURG — A plan to add tolls on nine bridges suffered a setback Tuesday when the Pennsylvania state House passed a bill to void the proposal, alth...
News
Sep 22, 2021
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania senators grilled turnpike executives over their efforts to collect unpaid tolls that amounted to $104 million last year duri...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 18, 2021
In 2019, the first Pennsylvania toll booths started to change as the Turnpike Commission switched from a mix of manned stations and machines to a new,...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2021
Taxes are one of those things that seem as permanent as a scar, indelible as a tattoo. It is one of the reasons we bristle when one is proposed. We ha...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2021
PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...
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...
