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The Evening Sun was quick to cheer last month when the state Senate passed a bill requiring countywide tax-collection districts.

Clarion's proposed Main Street improvement project - originally scheduled to begin last month - may now be delayed until October.

State Rep. Camille "Bud" George, D-74 Houtzdale, said that Pennsylvania will administer the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program that will provide up to 13 weeks of benefits to eligible ...

A teenager was pronounced dead at the scene of a car crash Tuesday morning on Willowbrook Drive in Industry.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Wilkes-Barre's much-acclaimed renaissance is in trouble. No matter what Mayor Tom Leighton and his cheerleaders at the Chamber of Business and Industry say, the city is sinking.

Patricia Ann Hall, 49, moved to Heaven to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 7, 2008.

Beaver County continued to be the target of a storm Saturday that caused massive power outages.

The job outlook here remained somewhat brighter than that in the state and nation at large, with the May unemployment rate creeping up one tenth of a point to 5 percent, compared to 5.2 percent in Pennsylvania ...

While making the most of its time waiting for talks on a new state budget to bear fruit, the House of Representatives passed a proposal Wednesday that should please most taxpayers.

The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing today to consider Gov. Rendell's nominations to fill four temporary openings on Pennsylvania's appellate courts.

After a boom in new construction, a "normal" market feels a little slow to Pam Anderson of Anderson Construction in Greencastle.

Marty and Lynne Holdren's dream is running out of gas. "We've worked all our lives, and all we wanted was to take one year to tour the country together," said Lynne Holdren, 61.

Lawmakers are eyeing a bill to drastically change the way wage taxes are collected by slashing the number of tax collectors and creating countywide collection districts.

But officials also reported a rise in the unemployment rate, a gauge of how many people are looking for work.

The right touch: Carlton Walker with her daughter Anna, a 7-year-old from McConnellsburg, won a national braille reading competition.

I reported yesterday on the public speaking arrangements of David Broder and Bob Woodward , neither of whom has thus far replied to requests for comment.

Rent paid by Westmoreland County to lease space in the four-floor addition atop the former public safety building across from the courthouse in Greensburg will not have to be increased as a result of a recent ...

The Manufacturers' Association of South Central Pennsylvania awarded its 2008 Workforce Professional of the Year award to Sandi Vito, acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Jobless rates in April in Fayette and Washington counties gained while Greene County unemployment fell, all by .1 percent.

In a lawsuit filed in Bucks County court, attorneys for Toll Brothers Inc. say Buckingham is wrongly applying outdated township building codes to its projects and should sue the state code.