How to build a financial bridge across the vast chasm between Pennsylvania's potential spending and revenue figures - gauged at roughly $5 billion or more - will be a major challenge as budget negotiators gear up to work on a 2026-27 spending plan. That much was clear in the state Capitol on ...

CELORON, NY – The Celoron Ribfest won’t take place in 2026, though organizers say they hope to bring the event back in 2027. After mounting factors had made it increasingly harder for the Ribfest to be hosted, organizers found it would be best to cancel the event and focus on new efforts ...

The Warren County YMCA will hold its 12th annual craft show Saturday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A $1 entry fee includes a door prize ticket. Nearly 70 vendors will be on site filling both gymnasiums with overflow into the lobby. Various artists and crafters featuring items such as ...

A Brookville, Pa., man has been sentenced to five years probation in connection to an arson fire in Pittsfield in 2024. Joel Webster, 28, of Brookville had been charged with four counts of arson, reckless burning or exploding and risking catastrophe, all felony offenses, by the State Police ...

Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina's Allendale County has looked overseas for help. A quarter of the teachers in the rural, high-poverty district come from other countries. The superintendent praises the international educators — mostly from Jamaica and the ...

The biggest proposed new moneymaker in Pennsylvania government may also launch one of the sharpest debates of the 2026 budget process, and that is setting the appropriate tax rate for tens of thousands of unregulated "skill games" that are raking in cash around the state. Revenue Secretary ...