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Pennsylvania's top 10 high school QBs in 2025

Pennsylvania's top 10 high school QBs in 2025

One of the most interesting stories heading into the 2025 season in Pennsylvania is the recent recruiting odyssey of Nazareth Area quarterback Peyton Falzone. Falzone originally committed to Penn State in mid-April, choosing to stay in state and...

PA Chamber of Business & Industry hosts roundtable at LCCC

PA Chamber of Business & Industry hosts roundtable at LCCC

NANTICOKE — Luzerne County Community College President John Yudichak on Wednesday praised the leadership of Luke Bernstein, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, and he reaffirmed LCCC’s commitment to supporting...

Pennsylvania AG among coalition urging Congress to pass cannabis banking bill

Pennsylvania AG among coalition urging Congress to pass cannabis banking bill

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is among a coalition of 32 attorneys general that are urging Congress to pass the SAFER Banking Act of 2025. © Shutterstock In a letter to congressional leaders, Sunday and the coalition say the passage of...

Pennsylvania Sen. Fetterman, Colleagues’ Bill Takes Aim At Art Market’s Vulnerability To Illicit Finance

Senators Introduce “Art Market Integrity Act” to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in $25 Billion Industry .A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced landmark legislation Tuesday aimed at closing a significant loophole in the...

A GOP state senator wants to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $11 per hour

A GOP state senator wants to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $11 per hour

A Republican state senator wants to see Pennsylvania’s minimum wage increased to $11 an hour. Sen. Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) announced his plan Wednesday to introduce legislation that would gradually raise the wage in three phases. The first increase...

Pennsylvania Expands Sunday Hunting, Adds 13 Dates for Fall Seasons

Pennsylvania Expands Sunday Hunting, Adds 13 Dates for Fall Seasons

Photo courtesy of PA Game Commission. HARRISBURG, Pa. (EYT) – The Pennsylvania Game Commission on Monday established 13 new days for Sunday hunting, expanding opportunities for the 2025 fall seasons following the recent passage of a new state law....

Pennsylvania’s unregulated weed stores are booming — but tests show products are rife with toxic and illicit chemicals

Pennsylvania’s unregulated weed stores are booming — but tests show products are rife with toxic and illicit chemicals

For seven years, while Pennsylvania lawmakers have debated whether to legalize recreational marijuana, a gray market has blossomed for an array of products that look and smell a lot like weed. From South Philly to the King of Prussia Mall,...

EQT Completes Acquisition of Olympus Energy Assets

EQT Completes Acquisition of Olympus Energy Assets

EQT Corp. has completed the purchase of the upstream and midstream operations of Olympus Energy for $1.8 billion and consequently raised its projected sales volume for 2025 by 100 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent (Bcfe). The...

2025 Urban Agriculture Tour makes stop in Philadelphia, highlights investments in expanding ag apprenticeship training, access to fresh food

2025 Urban Agriculture Tour makes stop in Philadelphia, highlights investments in expanding ag apprenticeship training, access to fresh food

Pa. State Rep. Regina G. Young (D- 185th Dist.) and Labor & Industry Secretary Nancy A. Walker speak with each other during a recent visit to Sankofa Farm at Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia as part of the Shapiro administration’s 2025 Urban...

Conference panel discusses Oregon’s decades-long nuclear energy ban

Conference panel discusses Oregon’s decades-long nuclear energy ban

Published 11:00 am Wednesday, July 30, 2025 By LUCAS HELLBERG | East Oregonian MISSION — Are policymakers ready to revisit Oregon’s decades-long effective ban on nuclear energy in the face of growing demand for carbon-free power? That question...

Students learn about AI, engineering through weather balloons

Students learn about AI, engineering through weather balloons

It was a beautiful sunny day on July 15, when 45 high school students gathered on Jessup field to launch a weather balloon that would collect atmospheric data as it flew through the sky. Sarah Dean, assistant professor of computer science in the...

Deadline to File Property Tax Appeals Approaches as Pennsylvania Increases Common Level Ratios

Deadline to File Property Tax Appeals Approaches as Pennsylvania Increases Common Level Ratios

Filing Cutoff is Aug. 1 in Most PA Counties If you own retail, office, industrial or other commercial property in Pennsylvania, now is the time to review the tax assessment for your property against its current market value. The increase in...

Penske Logistics Recipient of Innovation Award from Toyota North America

READING, Pa., July 30, 2025 -- Penske Logistics is the recipient of a 2025 Manufacturing Innovation Award from Toyota North America. The award was handed out at Toyota's supplier conference, in recognition of Penske's dedicated contract carriage...

PA winemakers, lawmakers explore how to grow local industry

PA winemakers, lawmakers explore how to grow local industry

Pennsylvania lawmakers met with winemakers Monday to address climate, regulation, and competition, aiming to support Pennsylvania’s growing wine industry and local economy. The roundtable was co-hosted by the House Majority Policy Committee and...

OP ED: Our Energy Resources Set Us Apart

OP ED: Our Energy Resources Set Us Apart

You may have heard about the incredible announcement in Pittsburgh recently where global technology and energy industry leaders came together with President Trump to unveil a series of investments that may near $100 billion in data center and...

Red Planet: Blast off to Mars for The Great Pennsylvania Tomato Festival

Red Planet: Blast off to Mars for The Great Pennsylvania Tomato Festival

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRENCKLE’S FARMS & GREENHOUSES If aliens landed in Mars borough and demanded the perfect summer snack, Nick Salkeld would offer them Pennsylvania-grown tomatoes sliced and sprinkled with fleur de sel. He’d then invite them to The...

Modular Prison Cell Manufacturer Coming to Union County

Modular Prison Cell Manufacturer Coming to Union County

ALLENWOOD — A Texas-based manufacturer of modular prison cells says they are going to build a plant in Union County. ModCorr issued a news release saying they have signed a long-term lease for a 252,000 square-foot facility in the Great Stream...

Don Cunningham: Lehigh Valley is Anchor for the Return of American Manufacturing

Don Cunningham: Lehigh Valley is Anchor for the Return of American Manufacturing

In a sea of international tumult over tariffs, trade, and tension about producing more in America, the Lehigh Valley remains an anchor of manufacturing stability, quietly growing jobs, output, and the variety of products produced. In just the last...

Report: Some Georgia nursing homes at risk of closure from Medicaid cuts

Report: Some Georgia nursing homes at risk of closure from Medicaid cuts

The nursing home industry is one of several swaths of the health care sector that could see massive upheaval under “The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” championed and signed into law recently by President Donald Trump. A report from researchers at...

East Hempfield supervisors take steps to allow construction of half-mile pedestrian and bike trail

East Hempfield supervisors take steps to allow construction of half-mile pedestrian and bike trail

When: East Hempfield Board of Supervisors meeting, July 16. Supervisor H. Scott Russell was absent. What happened: Supervisors approved easements on Farmingdale and West Roseville roads that will allow workers this year to begin constructing about...

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