Amtrak’s second round-trip Pennsylvanian will begin running Nov. 18, and the schedule for both trains is now set, according to information presented Tuesday at a news conference in Johnstown that included the state secretary of transportation, a state senator, Amtrak officials and a ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — With caseloads piling up, Blair County’s Chief Public Defender Julia Burke requested funding to add two attorneys to the Public Defender’s Office. During the first day of the county’s budget hearings, Burke told commissioners Laura Burke and Amy Webster that the ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County judge upheld the lengthy sentence imposed on a city man convicted in May of attempted homicide after stabbing two fellow inmates at the Blair County Prison in October 2023. President Judge Wade A. Kagarise sentenced Raymond Thomas Oechsle, 54, in mid-June to ...
With the November midterm elections approaching, environmental and community advocates gathered at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg Tuesday to protest the impacts of hyperscale artificial intelligence data centers and urge their fellow Pennsylvanians to become more civically engaged. The ...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will spend nearly 40% of its $50.8 billion budget on education this year. The size of that obligation, and its impact on children, teenagers, and college students across the commonwealth, make it an enormous part of annual spending talks. Unsurprisingly, it’s a prominent issue in the 2026 race for governor. Incumbent Democrat Josh Shapiro has spent his governorship threading a needle on education. He has backed big spending increases, particularly for the commonwealth’s most inadequately funded public school districts. At the same time, he’s supported ...
The Pennsylvania state House on Monday approved a pair of bills creating stiffer penalties for shops caught selling electronic cigarettes to minors and banning the sale of synthetic kratom. House Bill 1434 would hike the fine for a first offense for selling nicotine vapes to underage customers to $5,000 from $100-$500. Under existing law, the fine increases for each subsequent offense, with retailers facing a penalty of $5,000 only after they’ve been caught three times illegally selling vapes to underage consumers. The legislation is “about accountability,” Rep. Amen Brown, ...
