Grant funding for local fire and emergency medical service departments was recently announced. The grants are through the Office of the State Fire Commissioner’s Fire Company and Emergency Medical Service Grant Program. All funding comes from the proceeds from slot machine gaming, not ...
An inmate at SCI Houtzdale was found unresponsive in his cell and later pronounced dead, according to a news release from the prison. Edward J. Bower Jr., 31, died Thursday despite life-saving measures by members of the Unit Team, the report states. Bower was serving a 7-to-14-year sentence ...
The story of transportation in the Keystone State is largely about finding ways to cross the Allegheny Mountain barrier dividing the state. Or so it’s been until recent decades. The historic challenges impeding big east-west transportation projects provides a reference point to the current ...
Two hundred years ago, Pennsylvania lawmakers arrived at the Capitol in a state of panic. Pennsylvania’s economic standing was jeopardized by the opening of the Erie Canal across New York State in the fall of 1825. A new transportation route linking the Atlantic seaboard with the Great West ...
Becky Clapper of Hollidaysburg walks with Abby, her 5-year-old golden retriever, at Canal Basin Park on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
A New Haven, Conn., developer Friday proposed an initiative to the city Redevelopment Authority under which she would build a series of tiny homes, in a proposed collaboration that authority members seemed eager to embrace. Having learned about Altoona through a friend of a friend who ...