This is Pennsylvania Local Government Week. It should not be the only time we celebrate and thank our local elected officials. Many evenings, while most of us are at home with family and friends, ...

Steve Kerr, the basketball fan, raves about the play-in tournament and the drama that it creates down the stretch of the NBA’s regular season and leading into the official start of the playoffs. Kerr, ...

PennDOT District 9’s bridges and roads are generally in better shape than the state’s averages, especially the major assets — I-99 and Routes 22, 219 and 30 — but there are funding concerns, District ...

Senior Sport: Baseball Athlete of the week achievement: Speece was named co-MVP of the Curve Classic baseball tournament after helping Altoona defeat Central for the championship. He tripled twice, ...

Quarterback Cam Ward might be the first player off this year’s NFL Draft board. Five years ago, he was pretty much off everybody’s radar outside of West Columbia, Texas. Back then, Ward worked behind ...

Grade: Senior Sport: Track and field Athlete of the week achievement: Frazier ran 12.57 in the 100-meter dash to take the top spot in the Mirror honor roll, and helped Hollidaysburg defeat Central ...

In an April 9 front page Mirror article about downtown Altoona parking, a representative of Mountain View Eye Associates was quoted as saying, “The biggest thing anyone says is it really sucks to park ...

A trout fisherman tries his luck along the chilly banks of Chest Creek in Patton recently. Trout season runs through Labor Day. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski ...

A man who allegedly scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was denied bail Monday as he faced charges including ...

William Rabold II recently announced his candidacy for Frankstown Township supervisor in the upcoming May primary. A Republican, Rabold has lived in the township for nine years, although he is a ...

The Altoona Area School Board hired two administrators during its meeting Monday night. Jason Hatch, a mid-level mathematics instructor, was hired as an assistant principal at the Altoona Area Junior ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro angrily called for an end to rising political violence just hours after a man broke into the governor’s mansion and set it on fire, forcing Shapiro and his family to ...