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A long-looming nursing shortage — exacerbated by the near-relentless toll of the COVID-19 pandemic — means more hospitals and health systems are offer...

As businesses in the commonwealth continue a strong economic comeback from the pandemic and businesses looking to hire, all CareerLinks in the North C...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that Bradford’s facade grant program will receive funding from the Keystone Communities Program. “The Keys...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners have announced special hours during the search for a new Director of Veterans Affairs. The office, which i...

For those who will sit down at the kitchen table this week, ready to easily reconcile household bills versus income, imagine this: The electric bill h...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., is re-introducing a bill to increase the affordability of long-term care insurance. Toomey’s Long-Term Care ...

SMETHPORT — Two of McKean County’s departments are looking for new leaders. The director of veterans affairs, Zach Pearson, and the director of the pl...

SAYRE — The Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers, through its Northeastern Potter Economic Development Association Fund, seeks proposals from non-p...

RIDGWAY — The North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission (North Central), in cooperation with the Department of Conservat...

HARRISBURG — The Cameron County Industrial Development Authority has been awarded a grant of $43,573 to address a blighted property in the borough of ...

HARRISBURG — Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate has fallen low eno...

COUDERSPORT — Potter County officials are asking landowners to take a short survey to provide essential data for the development of their Countywide C...

A Bradford man has been arraigned on allegations of welfare fraud. Gary Dioguardi, 43, of 1208 South Ave., is charged with one count of fraudulently o...

HARRISBURG — The state Senate adopted a plan Wednesday that will allow thousands of older Pennsylvanians to retain eligibility for prescription drug a...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County commissioners have announced a new funding program to help with the fight against blight throughout McKean County. The A...

The North Central Forest Landowners Association will offer a program called “Erosion Control” from 1-3 p.m. May 22. John Stratton and Chad Jestes will...

In the days preceding President Joe Biden’s release of his $1 trillion American Families Plan, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and several of his Democrat...

Over the past year, 139 pages full of regulations for the state of Pennsylvania have been suspended because of the pandemic. On Tuesday, the Pennsylva...

SMETHPORT — In a report to the McKean County commissioners, Zach Pearson, McKean County director of veterans affairs, said the Erie Veterans Administr...

EMPORIUM — The Cameron County Project has big ideas for how to improve engagement in the community. And the group is looking to the community to help ...