Franklin board set to approve budget with no tax hike

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has heard testimony from former White House aides and others about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election — and his encouragement of supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol bent on achieving his goal.

Cranberry Township is working with the Army Corps of Engineers to complete a study of the area around Lower Two Mile Run and Sage Run that was affected by severe flash flooding in July 2019.

Oil City School Board members and the school district’s teachers union have approved a five-year collective bargaining agreement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump fought security officials for control of the presidential SUV as he struggled to get to the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, a key former White House aide told House investigators Tuesday, even after he had been told that some of …

Valley Grove School Board on Monday gave final approval to the school district’s 2022-23 budget, which includes a tax increase to which six of nine board members gave their “yes” votes.

Franklin School Board members approved the district’s 2022-23 final general fund budget at the panel’s meeting Monday.

Oil City School Board members gave final approval to the district’s 2022-23 budget at their meeting Monday.

Cranberry School Board members gave final approval to the district’s 2022-23 budget and hired two assistant principals at the panel’s meeting Monday.

Sidewalk repairs and improvements to public safety communications in Oil City are in the works for this year.

HARRISBURG (AP) — With a few days to go until the state’s budget deadline, Gov. Tom Wolf and leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature are working through their remaining differences as they try to produce an agreement on a roughly $42 billion budget plan that they say will marshal su…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

HARRISBURG (AP) — Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday he would fight to preserve access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and he called on Americans to elect more Democrats who would safeguard rights upended by the court’s decision.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

KNOX — The Keystone School Board earlier this week approved a 1-mill real estate tax increase, looking to keep ahead of underway projects and pending heating repairs.

Oil City Council members heard an update Thursday on the much anticipated East Second Street project that will begin next year.

This year’s Jolly July 3rd festivities in Oil City will feature a new band and the addition of a pet friendly 5K earlier in the day.

Franklin School Board members will vote next week on the district’s 2022-23 budget.

Despite the adversities it has faced, the new Franklin Area School District superintendent chose this district over others.

Three years after one family’s truck and tractor benefit pull helped part of their friends’ medical expenses vanish in a puff of exhaust, Western PA Pullin’ 4 A Purpose continues to pay it forward to families in need.

HARRISBURG (AP) — State House Republicans blocked a proposal to prevent those ages 18 to 21 from possessing assault-style rifles on Tuesday by changing the bill into a constitutional amendment to allow anyone to carry concealed guns.

The annual Rocky Grove Fireman’s Fair will start Tuesday, June 28, and continue through Saturday, July 2, at the fairgrounds outside the Rocky Grove fire hall.

Clarion state police identified a Bucks County man as the driver of a car who was the victim of a fatal crash between his vehicle and a tractor-trailer on Interstate 80 in Beaver Township on Sunday morning.

Oil City Fire Department Chief Derek Long said no one was injured in a second-floor bedroom fire that broke out at 213 State St. at about 7:10 p.m. Sunday.