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Rouse Home named to Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes list

Rouse Warren County Home has been named to Newsweek’s America’s Best Nursing Homes 2027, a national ranking recognizing nursing homes across the United States for performance in areas including quality of care, clinical services, quality measures and overall performance. Rouse is among 1,325 nursing homes nationwide recognized in the eighth edition of the annual ranking, which was created by Newsweek in partnership with Statista. This year’s ranking is the first to evaluate nursing homes in every state and the District of Columbia. Pennsylvania had 77 nursing homes recognized ...

State jobless rate reaches lowest level in three years

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) released its preliminary employment situation report for September on Friday. Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 3.6 percent in September, the lowest rate in three years and only one-tenth above the record low set in summer 2023 just five months after Governor Josh Shapiro took office. The PA rate was six-tenths of a percentage point below the U.S. unemployment rate, which was up one-tenth from August to 4.2 percent. The Commonwealth’s unemployment rate has declined by ...

Tidioute News: Teacher wins award, Halloween updates

SHAPE PA is proud to recognize Christina Valentine of Tidioute Community Charter School as a recipient of the 2026 Innovation in Physical Education Award. Valentine teaches Health and Physical Education at Tidioute Community Charter School in Warren County, where she continues to create meaningful and innovative opportunities for her students. Through the TCCS Expeditionary Project, she connected her fifth grade and ninth to 11th grade students with the Warren County Pickleball Club. Students learned the history, equipment, skills, rules, and strategies of pickleball before taking ...

Older residents urged to apply for tax, rent rebates

The Shapiro Administration is reminding older Pennsylvanians, widows and widowers, and people with disabilities that they have until Dec. 31 to apply for the Property Tax/Rent Rebate (PTRR) Program for property taxes or rent paid in 2025. Eligible applicants can receive up to $1,000 in relief. As one of the Governor’s first tax cuts, the PTRR expansion is helping more Pennsylvanians stay in their homes, pay their bills, and make ends meet. So far in 2026, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (DOR) has already processed 491,343 rebates totaling $294.7 million on property taxes or ...

McCormick opposes ‘idea’ of live streamed Fort Hood execution

Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., opposes U.S. Sec. of War Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of a man convicted for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. “I don't like the idea. I don't think it's a great idea,” McCormick told The Center Square in an interview on Tuesday. “I do support capital punishment, and this was a horrible case of a terrorist killing (thirteen) Americans.” “Couldn't have been more explicit that he was doing that,” he continued. “So, I'm in favor of capital punishment, but I don't think there's a lot of benefit in live streaming ...

Shapiro files petition over higher energy rates

This week, Gov. Josh Shapiro filed a petition with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to intervene in a proceeding challenging PPL Electric Utilities’ current rate structure, a crucial action to help protect Pennsylvania electricity customers from rising costs and reliability risks associated with data center development in the Commonwealth. The petition marks the first time in at least 15 years that a governor has intervened in a PUC proceeding. The Governor’s petition supports a complaint filed by the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA), which argues that ...