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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Logan Township Police Department has received a $14,200 grant from Norfolk Southern that will pay for two drones, along with drone operator training, according to a department Facebook post. In addition to helping the department deal with derailments, right-of-way trespass, rail yard ...
The city zoning hearing board approved three variances Wednesday afternoon for a small landscaping company to use a vacant lot as a storage yard in an area zoned as residential neighborhood. Franklin Reed Jr., owner and operator of Frank’s Down to Earth Landscaping, applied for the variances that would allow him to have a contractor/storage yard in a residential zone, allow a reduced buffer area and provide only landscaped screening, as well as allow less than a 50-foot setback from the street right-of-way, online documents state. Reed purchased the parcels of 1320 and 1322 N. Fourth ...
