This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday is the solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer north of the equator. It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year and winter will ...
The company that developed the anaerobic digester project at the Altoona Water Authority’s Westerly Sewer Treatment Plant several years ago recently paid the authority $551,000 to make up for a shortfall in operational income from the digester for 2025 — a shortfall that reflects the firm’s difficulties in obtaining sufficient high-strength waste from customers for the digester to process. Energy Systems Group took on the project as part of a state energy conservation initiative, with a guarantee that for 20 years, participants like the authority would at least break even on ...
Domestic violence and sexual assault survivor advocates gathered in the Pennsylvania Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, calling on legislators to pass the state budget on time with survivors’ needs at the forefront and warning of the consequences of last year’s stalemate. The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence is advocating for an increase in the Department of Human Services domestic violence line item of $8 million to bring the total to $31 million. The Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect is calling for an increase in the DHS rape crisis line item of $12.5 million to ...
TYRONE — Retired State Police trooper and Army veteran Tim Strohmeyer is “the boy who wasn’t expected to do great things,” a title given to him in an email exchange with Rose Black, the Tyrone Area Chamber of Commerce’s executive director. While speaking at the chamber’s breakfast ...
Two education bills introduced only days ago are moving quickly through the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, drawing sharp disagreement over whether they would bring needed accountability to school-choice programs or undermine funding for students who use them. House Bill 2632 would overhaul Pennsylvania’s education tax-credit scholarship system beginning in 2027-28, keeping the $680 million cap but changing how the money is allocated. The bill would create a new economically disadvantaged scholarship category, adjust donor incentives and impose new oversight requirements on ...
BANGKOK — World shares were mixed Friday and U.S. futures declined as optimism over the U.S.-Iran deal to end their war was dimmed by the postponement of high-stakes talks on reopening negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and getting oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. markets were closed Friday for Juneteenth. Planned talks in Switzerland between Iran and the United States over their efforts to reach a permanent end to war were delayed, while Israel’s military said its forces struck targets throughout southern Lebanon overnight as Hezbollah reported intense ...
