Tour of Clarion Sorce Center showcases all its resources

Special courts and programs in Clarion County are paying dividends at the county jail.

PITTSBURGH — The average price of gasoline in the tri-county area this week is below the western Pennsylvania average of $4.93, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The drop, AAA said, reflects the nationwide trend that is due to a lack of consumer demand.

Venango County Human Services and a number of organizations in Oil City are strategizing a way to improve access to food, healthcare and other services for people in the East End of Oil City by creating a “health hub” in the neighborhood.

The recently created Venango County infrastructure bank, which would provide municipalities and municipal authorities access to money for larger projects at lower interest rates, with the interest partially subsidized by the county, is in full swing and accepting applications.

The Pennsylvania Rural Robotics Initiative has a new home in Franklin, bringing additional STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education and resources to area students.

HARRISBURG (AP) — Work on a new state budget for Pennsylvania will plow into next week as the state government started the fiscal year Friday with diminished spending authority, details of a new spending plan still largely a secret and questions about whether negotiators can solve lingering …

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s new fiscal year will begin without a state budget in place, as Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration and top Republican lawmakers haltingly worked through Thursday’s deadline to hammer out a roughly $42 billion spending plan whose details were still largely being ke…

HARRISBURG (AP) — A state court on Thursday permanently blocked Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to toll as many as nine major bridges on interstates in Pennsylvania, siding with three Pittsburgh-area municipalities that argued that his administration had violated procedures in getting to the advanced s…

HARRISBURG (AP) — A state court today permanently blocked Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to toll as many as nine major bridges on interstates in Pennsylvania — including on Interstate 80 in Clarion and Jefferson counties.

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) — 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.

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.