The city Zoning Hearing Board Wednesday granted four variances requested by the company that is redeveloping the former Juniata Silk Mill on Broadway as a multi-tenant commercial facility in an industrial flex zone. One will allow establishment of a preschool larger than 5,000 square feet; ...
LILLY — Cambria County’s solar panel project is continuing to progress after the commissioners approved an interconnection reimbursement agreement Thursday with MEI Manor LLC, said Chief Clerk Alex Ashcom. As part of the project, the county hopes to install solar fields to power the ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A judge denied the motions to dismiss Thursday morning filed on behalf of the Blair County couple facing hundreds of counts of child sexual abuse across four cases. William John Stonebraker, 56, and Marie Louis Stonebraker, 44, appeared alongside their respective defense ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona woman asked Blair County commissioners on Thursday for a ban on balloon releases, something that she thought everyone knew to be hazardous to wildlife, the environment and aviators. “Let’s be first and let’s lead the way,” Rosemary Ellis told commissioners ...
A fiery North Dakota derailment that happened two years ago demonstrated yet again why the National Transportation Safety Board has been urging the rail industry for decades to replace flawed tank cars that tend to rupture in a crash. The NTSB said in its final report Thursday that the ...
Grassroots resistance to data centers is creating some strange bedfellows with Republican lawmakers who are typically not on the side of environmentalists leading the calls for a moratorium on data center development. Karen Feridun of the Better Path Coalition, one of the groups leading ...