MARTINSBURG — Contour Airlines carried a record number of passengers in and out of the Altoona-Blair County Airport in July. With an overall completion rate of 100%, Contour carried 2,427 passengers outbound and inbound last month at the airport, according to manager Tracy Plessinger, who ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg Area School Board denied the approval of an AP Human Geography textbook Wednesday evening after one member described its discussion of gender identity as “indoctrination.” A motion made during the board’s monthly meeting was to approve the textbook, ...
Legislators and agricultural leaders gathered in Centre County on Wednesday to discuss the challenges facing Pennsylvania’s farming industry and ways to strengthen it for the future as part of Penn State’s Ag Progress Days. The House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee and Senate ...
COLUMBUS — First responders rescued more people from floodwaters Wednesday as utility crews cleared trees and wires downed by severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity. A 4-year-old ...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction of an Altoona man on two counts of illegally possessing firearms, although the guns in question were locked in a safe in his home. Altoona police were called to the home of Kevin Maurice Wright Jr., 40, on the 1100 block of Third ...
Norfolk Southern officials confirmed Wednesday morning that the clean-up of a 12 railcar derailment along Altoona’s Horseshoe Curve was “essentially complete.” Senior communications manager Kasandra Jenkins wrote in an email that all railcars were back on the tracks as of 8:30 a.m., ...
