1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (497+ words) The Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environmental Protection plan to study a 40-acre section on the grounds of the Altoona Water Authority's Westerly Sewer Treatment Plant with the ultimate aim of removing legacy PCB-contaminated soil there, an…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (319+ words) HOLLIDAYSBURG " Residents of flood prone areas in Gaysport will have to wait several more months for the long-awaited stormwater mitigation project to begin, as the state Department of Environmental Protection ruled this week that the borough must complete a larger…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (827+ words) The two artificial intelligence startups behind rival chatbots ChatGPT and Claude are bracing for an existential showdown this year as both need to prove they can grow a business that will make more money than they're losing. The fiercest competition…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (433+ words) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. " NASA ran into exasperating fuel leaks during a make-or-break test of its new moon rocket Monday, calling into question how soon astronauts could take off for a trip around the moon. The leaks " reminiscent of the rocket's…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago  (368+ words) ANCHORAGE, Alaska " The life of one of the most remote grizzly bear populations in the world is being documented by the animals themselves, with collar cameras that provide a rare glimpse of how they survive on Alaska's rugged and desolate…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (391+ words) The moon is our nearest neighbor in space, at an average distance of about 238,000 miles. As it orbits our Earth every month or so, it appears to pass by stars and planets in our night sky " or, at least, so…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (779+ words) Three Texas siblings who perished in an icy pond were among several dozen deaths in U.S. states gripped by frigid cold as crews scrambled Tuesday to repair hundreds of thousands of power outages in the shivering South and forecasters warned the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (860+ words) Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 30 deaths were reported in states…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (737+ words) Her name is evocative of a woodland glade in the spring, but she's likely to turn the woods of Appalachia " and places far beyond to the southwest and the northeast " into a wintry spectacle as forbidding as it will be…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (456+ words) A blast of winter weather brought snowfall and subfreezing wind chills across the Midwest and East Coast on Saturday as well as near-freezing temperatures in parts of the South, including normally balmy Florida. In northeastern Ohio, sudden bursts of heavy…...