The Bishop Guilfoyle Academy boys and Williamsburg girls punched their tickets to the PIAA final four with victories on ...

Under the pen name of Milico Mathers, Nancy E. Head, of Altoona, has released her second middle-grade historical novel. Set in Ireland during World War II, 12-year-old Brian McGrath and his older ...

Courtesy photo Penn State Altoona celebrated the Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing bachelor of science in ...

Online event to be held March 27 The Community Arts Center of Cambria County’s annual 36th Great American Auction will again be an online auction. CACCC is still calling and requesting new and gently ...

A fire early Saturday destroyed a pair of attached barns at the Frederick Dairy Farm in Martinsburg RD, but farm employees and firefighters were able to save all but one of more than 600 cows that ...

Holden Cessna of Clearville was among more than 85 Belmont University student musicians from the University Orchestra and Chorale who took the stage alongside world-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli in ...

Award-winning chef Patrick O’Connell has a book scheduled for September about how he converted an old garage into an international destination for food lovers. O’Connell’s “Main, Middle & Gay” is a ...

Two additional inmates have reached out in the past week to the U.S. District Court in Johnstown as a way to address their grievances with living conditions in the Blair County Prison. One of the ...

The Frohsinn Society, Ninth Avenue and 12th Street, Altoona, hosted a baby contest Aug. 22, 1953. The babies are (from left) ...

Editor’s note: the following information was provided by the prothonotary’s offices at area county courthouses. Blair County Heather J. Ansman and Joshua E. Walter, both of Altoona. Mark D. Au and ...

The death of a Pennsylvania state trooper during a traffic stop on March 8 underscores how the lives of law enforcement officers are at risk even while performing some of their most basic duties. Cpl.

As I write this, I’m going to go to what I’d call a “history-adjacent” conference at which I’m likely to run into far more non-genealogists than at the gatherings I normally attend. Which got me to ...