The Altoona Area School District’s 2026-27 preliminary budget projects a $3.8 million shortfall, which could be wiped out entirely if the district receives the full amount of Ready to Learn funding pr...
A longtime Altoona businessman is planning to move on after 65 years in his family business. James D. “Jim” Folcarelli, 84, plans to retire near the first of April upon the sale of Folcarelli Sheet Me...
A city man who pleaded guilty to three felony counts of child pornography is back behind bars with bail denied after allegedly threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend. Hasan Elwood Gaines, 25, was arrai...
The Board received an overview Monday of where the district’s budget is ahead of today’s state budget address from Gov. Josh Shapiro. In an 11-district cohort with the same average daily membership, A...
Carver Masucci, 7, of Altoona fashions a snow seat at Fairview Park on Thursday afternoon. Ron Mentzer of Gallitzin shovels out the sidewalk and driveway of his aunt’s home along Powell Avenue in Cres...
The Altoona Blair County Development Corporation has reached an agreement to buy the largest building in the downtown, the one most characteristic of downtown’s heyday and one that the organization re...
A small, single-engine aircraft ran off a general aviation runway while landing Tuesday morning at the Altoona-Blair County Airport, prompting officials to close the runway for a couple of hours until...
CLEARFIELD — Altoona went 3-2 and finished as the runner-up at the Bison Duals at Clearfield Area High School on Saturday in high school wrestling. The Mountain Lions defeated Williamsport, 62-11, Cur...
The Altoona Curve Booster Club held its last meeting for 2025 in late September at the Quality Inn. Altoona Curve General Manager Nate Bowen provided a wrap-up of the season, in addition to highlighti...
The Altoona Area School Board is whole again after David Francis was selected to fill a vacancy that was created earlier this month when board member-elect Bryant Giselman resigned. Giselman won a two...
