WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment dropped below 1 million last week for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak took hold in the U.S. five months ago, but layoffs are still running extraordinarily high. The figures show that the crisis continues to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With talks on emergency coronavirus aid having stalled out, both sides played the blame game Thursday rather than make any serious moves to try to break their stalemate. Official Washington is emptying, national politics is consuming the airwaves and the chasm between the ...

The 75th annual South Williamsport Mummers Parade that had been set for October has been canceled, with organizers citing regulatory obstacles in obtaining a permit from the state Department of Transportation. “I’m very frustrated,” Dori Rankinen, who has been involved with organizing ...

LEWISBURG — “I don’t think anybody would have imagined that we would all be sitting in a room wearing masks to do many things,” Congressman Fred Keller, R-Kreamer, said in a roundtable discussion with Evangelical Community Hospital administration this week. Keller, alongside ...

The United Way of Pennsylvania is conducting an online survey on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on people categorized as “Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed” (ALICE), or the working poor. “ALICE represents the 24 percent of Pennsylvanians who work, but struggle ...

Montoursville Area School District’s plan for students to start the school year under the hybrid model was discussed at Tuesday’s board meeting with some people expressing concern that students will not be in classrooms five days a week. Superintendent Christina Bason told residents and ...