We are glad that, during his recent visit to Williamsport, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance took the time to address an issue that is both important to our region and to the nation. U.S. Sen. Vance, R-Ohio, wants to see the development of natural gas, an energy source that ...
Four tractor-trailers. About 590 miles. Between 17 and 18 hours on the road. A local family, seeing the devastation left in the wake of hurricanes in North Carolina and neighboring states, took it upon themselves to organize the collection of needed supplies and to drive those supplies to ...
Dubbed the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Maria in 2017, Helene has already claimed more than 200 lives, with many more still unaccounted for. Making matters worse, only a small fraction of households in the hardest-hit counties had flood insurance. Policies are not cheap, and many living on high ground might have thought the risks were too minor to warrant the expense. As Helene makes clear, tropical storms are no longer an exclusively coastal threat. Heavy rains can rapidly flood hill-country streams and ravines, and there is only so much federal aid can do to ...
Montoursville Area School Board is mulling its role in financially contributing to the Lycoming Career and Technology Center, which offers career training — in some ways what traditionally was known as vocational-technical training — to students in much of Lycoming County. We have no ...
Pennsylvania Act 38 of 2023, which is keeping speed cameras in place in Philadelphia and which expanded their use there, also directed the state Local Government Commission to deliver a report within two years making recommendations about whether and how to allow other municipalities to ...
The federal government is predicting a nursing shortage in 2025, and we’re already seeing signs of one locally. Around one-fifth of registered nursing positions in Massachusetts home health care and nursing homes are unfilled. Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.1 billion last year hiring temporary registered nurses to fill vacancies. Nationally, according to a 2022 survey of nurses, the median age of a registered nurse was 46 years old, and more than one-quarter of all nurses reported that they planned to leave nursing over the next 5 years. Yet in July, the US State Department ...
