Poll: Biden approval hits new low at one-year mark

HARRISBURG (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face each other in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate contest this fall as Tuesday’s primary election put the men on track for a race that is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and he…

Clarion resident Josh Bashline won a tight race for the Republican nomination for the 63rd District seat in the state House of Representatives in Tuesday’s primary election, according to unofficial results.

A keen curiosity about the world brought one young son of Venango County to the Courthouse Annex to volunteer during the primary election on Tuesday.

KNOX — Unseasonably cool weather and a little snow did not deter dozens of people from attending the second annual Autism Walk at Keystone High School on Sunday.

Cranberry High School senior Jordan Anderson has received the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn.

SHIPPENVILLE — It has been about a month since Clarion County employees moved from the courthouse in Clarion to the Clarion County Complex in Shippenville and, overall, it appears the move went well.

BROOKVILLE — As an astronomer in Poland, Felicia Salber is usually looking at the stars, but recently she has been looking into the “The Cricks of Brookville” — her upcoming historical fiction romance.

What happens next after Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran is unclear, according to Oil City native and Mideast expert Andrew J. Tabler.

The Venango County elections office held its public voting machine test Friday morning in the Courthouse Annex in preparation for Tuesday’s primary election.

About 60 area students circled through the pavilions of the Crosby Beach area on a cloudy day at Two Mile Run County Park on Friday, answering questions about trees, birds, soils, bugs and other natural topics.

A Franklin native is changing the landscape across Colorado and beyond for people in need of prosthetic limbs.

Major repairs to the ceiling of Courtroom 1 in the Venango County Courthouse are winding down.

A former priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Franklin has been nominated for the office of presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.

About 130 volunteers turned out Wednesday for Oil City’s annual clean-up day despite some rain showers and a good dose of mud in spots.

Many hours of hard work paid off Tuesday for 12 local high school students as they attended their welding technology graduation ceremony through the Community College of Allegheny County at Venango Technology Center.

PennWest-Clarion’s Venango Campus in Oil City was filled with two- and four-legged participants Monday as the Venango Veterans Club ran its last Dogs for Dogs event before the campus closes at the end of this school year.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli leaders on Sunday credited an international military coalition with helping thwart a direct Iranian attack involving hundreds of drones and missiles, calling the coordinated response a starting point for a “strategic alliance” of regional opposition to Tehran.

During the past six months since becoming warden of the Venango County jail, Adam Craig has been working on ambitious goals that include reducing recidivism, boosting morale and “changing public perception” of the institution.

Riders of various age groups pedaled their mountain bikes, and even twisted and turned them in mid-air, as the three-day Allegheny Gnar concluded Sunday with the actual race through the woods of Clark’s Summit in Oil City.

Heavy rains on Friday produced enough flooding that encroached into several basements, and area waterways flowed muddy brown, fast and furious, with the canopies of trees in some cases poking up from the water several feet out into the river.

When Joseph Emanuele celebrates his 90th birthday on Sunday with friends at Grace United Methodist Church in Oil City, the partygoers will be commemorating a lifetime marked by music and fidelity.

As the saying goes, “a friend in need is a friend indeed,” and that could certainly be said of local fire departments.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — For a long time, O.J. Simpson was the man who had it all.

CLARION — Voters in some Clarion County precincts will notice a change in the process at the polls for the April 23 primary election.