Lifestyles
Jul 11, 2024
DuBOIS — Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver, which is swelling that occurs when tissues are injured or infected. Liver inflammation can be caused ...
Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
Jun 30, 2024
PITTSBURGH – Bird flu, or H5N1 virus, in unpasteurized milk is stable on metal and rubber components of commercial milking equipment for at least one ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 06, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Congress blew its chance Monday to give Americans some insight into the COVID pandemic that dominated our lives for years. Following ...
News, Online Features
Dec 05, 2022
Seasonal flu activity across the country is higher than it has been at this time for the past five seasons, according to the Pennsylvania Department o...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 28, 2022
Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic on...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2022
As public health agencies scramble to contain the monkeypox outbreak that has infected about 10,000 Americans, the federal government has done nothing...
News, World
Aug 10, 2022
DUBOIS — Just when people’s fears about the many variants of the COVID-19 virus began to ease, a new virus — monkeypox — became news and may be causin...
News, Round the Square
Jul 07, 2022
COVID SURVEY: A recent study found that almost half, 48%, of Pennsylvanians’ views on COVID rules remain unchanged, even after two continuous years. A...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 08, 2022
To say it is not to fully absorb it: Our nation of 330 million souls has lost one million lives in just over two years to a virus that landed here in ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 10, 2022
Much has changed since President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Immunity, whether natural or acquired through...
News, PA State News
Mar 09, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The “rare but dangerous” deer tick virus that was found at its highest infection rate ever inClearfield Countyin January has been f...
News, PA State News
Mar 07, 2022
UNIVERSITY PARK — The ongoing detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds and domestic flocks in several Eastern and Midwestern state...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 27, 2021
Washington, D.C., is now the epicenter of the pandemic. As of Dec. 23, it had 158 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, a 541% growth in cases over th...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 01, 2021
There’s a lot to be learned about the omicron coronavirus variant, but scientists already know enough to prescribe a rational response to the threat. ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 05, 2021
Just before global leaders gathered in Rome for the G-20, to blather about confronting COVID-19 globally, a damning report was issued by a Brazilian s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 31, 2021
It’s one of the smartest moves by state government in a long time. On-site testing for the COVID-19 virus will be available at schools across the comm...
Columns, Local Sports
Jun 28, 2021
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on Allegany native Martha Ruether, a vision-impaired swimmer who will compete in the 16th Para...
News, Online Features
Jun 10, 2021
When Katie Behan had an emergency cesarean section on Easter for the delivery of her baby, Paisley, the COVID-stricken mom did so to save her infant’s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 07, 2021
Even if we never learn whether COVID-19 escaped from a lab or jumped to humans from animals, the public is entitled to a closer look at what’s going o...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 26, 2021
There was a “scientific consensus,” they told us. According to the media and assorted experts, there couldn’t be any questioning of the idea that the ...
Local News
June 16, 2025
ST. MARYS — Police report a Dagus Mines woman died Saturday as the result of a two-vehicle crash on South St. Marys Street. At approximately 4:45 p.m....
Business, Local News
June 16, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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 ...
