Negotiations between Mount Nittany Medical Center and SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania ended in a stalemate Tuesday evening, and as a result, a previously announced five-day strike will begin on Monday, July 27. According to a news release from Mount Nittany officials, in an effort to reach an ...
Pennsylvania has seen healthy turnout in recent elections, but one important segment of the electorate isn’t participating in such high numbers. According to a recent study of 30 states, Pennsylvania has the lowest rate of 18-year-olds registering to vote of any of them. Just 22% of ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro applauded the state’s recent budget deal for providing a 100% increase in funding for rape crisis centers during a ceremonial signing at the YWCA Young Women’s Association in Carlisle on Monday. It was a change of tune from last year, when a budget impasse forced many centers to limit services and let go of employees. In the new deal, state funding for Pennsylvania’s 47 rape crisis centers increased by $12 million. While many Republicans questioned if the budget was genuinely “balanced,” Shapiro maintained that the plan and its prioritization ...
Mackenzie Cherry (left) of Martinsburg keeps friend, artist Carly Maurer of Duncansville, company as she works on her piece “A Trip Around the Moon” as part of the Downtown Altoona Mural Project on 11th Avenue on Monday afternoon. Local artists Chris Bencivenga (left) and Becki Hollen, ...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has denied a new trial for a Saxton man who in 2021 drove his SUV through the closed glass doors of the town’s major market and sped through the vestibule before stopping. After he got out of his vehicle, Jordan Edward Duvall became embroiled in arguments ...
The scope of a three-decade old state program providing state and local tax breaks expands under the new Fiscal Code to spur housing projects in blighted areas. The Fiscal Code, Senate Bill 146, authorizes creation of a Keystone Opportunity Zone (KOZ) of 300 acres in the Johnstown area to ...
