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The last time a tax shift spurred cross-county protest in the Claysburg-Kimmel School District, Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" topped the charts and an Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton was about to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.

With the Independence Day holiday falling on a Monday, sales of consumer fireworks are likely to hit a record.

HARRISBURG - Gov. Tom Wolf appeased House leaders last week when he agreed to convene a special session later this year on the state's opioid addiction epidemic.

CRESSON - Park rangers operating at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site offered guests some perspective Saturday at an 1830s-era living history demonstration.

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Local officials who have worked in the travel industry for a long time said they can remember when state tourism budgets topped $40 million, with money set aside for international marketing campaigns and funds for local tourism bureaus to promote...

On Friday, signs bearing blinking lights and the words "road closed" continued to block off a portion of Union Avenue, but officials said the roadway could be opened earlier than expected.

Powers Great American Midways is a fourth-generation family business and a small, self-sufficient city on the move for nine months of the year.
The carnival started in Rochester, N.Y.

Scores of Pennsylvania school districts will have to navigate school law and negotiate employee contracts without attorney Dave Andrews, who will leave the law firm he developed after 27 years.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - An Altoona man will spend two to four years in prison for burning his 3-year-old daughter with a cigarette lighter.
Travis Bush-Wonderly, 34, entered a guilty plea Friday in Blair County Court to endangering the welfare of a child.