Accidents between the new motorized/electric bikes and larger vehicles have been ticking up in recent months and that has Altoona police on a campaign to educate riders and, when necessary, issue fines. Safety — for the bike riders who are often teenagers and for the general public — is ...
ROARING SPRING — The Spring Cove School Board is currently looking for a new member after Kevin Smith resigned due to ongoing issues with someone else on the board. At Monday’s meeting, the board voted 7 to 1 to approve member Smith’s resignation, with all members voting in favor ...
STATE COLLEGE — The Penn State Board of Trustees on Friday voted to approve the sale of two closing campuses to private development firms. The 12.7-acre Penn State Shenango campus in Mercer County will be sold to JCL Development for $1 million, and the 57.3-acre Wilkes-Barre campus in Luzerne County will be sold to HGC Development for $5.25 million. The decision marks the first real estate action taken by the university to sell any of the seven commonwealth campuses slated for closure in 2027. The other campuses are DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, and York. The board in ...
EBENSBURG — With its lease in the Logan Valley Mall set to expire in December 2027, Penn Highlands Community College is considering the possibility of relocating its Blair Center after being awarded $1.9 million from the state Department of Education, said Steve Nunez, the community ...
The Central Blair Recreation and Park Commission will conduct a pilot program designed to determine whether paying referees in cash will help alleviate a referee shortage. Commission referees now must wait up to two weeks for checks to be deposited into their accounts, according to Executive ...
A growing chorus of red and blue state governors is urging Congress to regulate frontier artificial intelligence, as concerns intensify over the technology’s potential to cause catastrophic harm. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat up for re-election in November, was the latest to join the call for federal action in a keynote speech last week at the AI Horizons 2026 Summit in Pittsburgh, saying it does so “for nearly every other industry that significantly impacts our lives.” The bipartisan demands for federal guardrails follow a series of incidents over the past two ...
