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The increases in diesel fuel costs directly affect the cost of planting, harvesting and transporting crops.

Every school district in the Valley enters into a contract with school bus operators. The operators and the district, together, must deal with this sudden spike in the price of diesel.

SUNBURY — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a percentage point in January, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry's preliminary employment situation report.

SUNBURY — Shikellamy school directors and administration officials will create a policy regarding district-wide use of artificial intelligence.

The lawsuit says Trump’s order violates the U.S. Constitution by usurping the states’ power to administer their own elections.

SHAMOKIN DAM — Shamokin Dam Manager Ed Hovenstine is giving the council ample time to consider his replacement by notifying members of his intent to retire next year.

LEWISBURG — A Philadelphia man allegedly threatened to find someone to have two state troopers shot following a hearing that did not favor him in Union County Court on March 31, according to state police in Milton.

LEWISBURG — A Lewisburg man sentenced in September to house arrest ditched his electronic monitor and fled to Alabama for four months, according to the Union County District Attorney’s Office.

Over the past two months, the price per gallon of diesel fuel has spiked by $2, from $4 per gallon to more than $6 on Friday. The sharp increases are causing a significant financial blow to the trucking industry and, by extension, American consumers.