Fruit growers impacted by a late-April freeze will soon be able to apply for assistance from the state government. “Starting on Monday, the Department of Agriculture, under Secretary Redding's leadership, will begin to accept applications for growers in all 67 counties who were affected by ...
The number of people working in Pennsylvania hit a new record high in July, the state Department of Labor and Industry reported Friday. There were almost 150,000 more employed in the state in July than there were in the same month in 2025. Employment was up 19,000 just compared to June. The ...
Kyan Weibley, 9, peeks out of a rail car from Charlie’s Doggy Express, Pinecroft, during Evergreen Manors’ annual Back to School Bash for residents on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County has made a $10,000 deposit toward purchasing the Duncansville area land where a new prison could be built but the process of acquiring the property continues to move slowly. “We’re probably not going to be able to close (the sale) by the end of the month,” ...
Former German exchange student Michael Schaefer and the Sanker family of Altoona became family by chance and friends by choice. As Bishop Guilfoyle’s first exchange student during the 1965-66 school year, Schaefer quickly became the eighth child in the Sanker family during his stay in ...
CARLISLE — Federal investigators have pulled intact data cards from a state police helicopter and Cessna plane that collided at a small airport in central Pennsylvania, killing the plane’s pilot. Aaron McCarter, investigator-in-charge with the National Transportation Safety Board, called ...
