JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Tuesday is the grand opening of Beyond/Hello, Johnstown’s first of two medical marijuana dispensaries to open.
Beyond/Hello is located on Main Street and offers products for all 23 conditions eligible to be treated by medical marijuana. There are eight point of sales in the shop, and the facility also includes a private consultation room.
According to Blythe Huestis, the president of Beyond/Hello, there will always be a security guard and a pharmacist on site.
DUBICZE CERKIEWNE, Poland (TND) — Poland will fortify its border with Belarus after a migrant stabbed a Polish soldier on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk reportedly announced the formation of a roughly 660-foot-wide buffer zone along its 118-mile long metal barrier, along with the deployment of additional military and police forces, after a migrant hospitalized a soldier from the Belarus side of the border.
“We came here today to say that in every situation, especially one as dramatic as the attack on our soldier, the Polish state stands on the side of the soldiers and Border Guard officers,” Tusk said at a press conference in Dubicze Cerkiewne, Poland.
Officials say it's snake season here in west central Pennsylvania and they're warning residents to be on the lookout.
According to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, there are 21 types of snakes living in Pennsylvania. They say three of those species are venomous -- the timber rattlesnake, the eastern copperhead and the eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
The timber rattlesnake and the eastern copperhead both live in our region.
Snakes like the warmth from sun, but also look for a place to hide.
Johnstown, PA (WJAC) — A trial date has formally been scheduled for Johnstown man Brian Giles, who was charged last year in the death of his wife Nancy, following a 3-and-a-half year investigation.
According to online court records, jury selection for Giles' trial is scheduled for October 12 and 13th, with the trial scheduled to begin on October 16th.
Police charged Giles with criminal homicide last May, nearly 3-and-a-half years after his wife Nancy was reported missing.
ALTOONA, Pa. (WJAC) — Among the places reopening now are museums and historical sites.
One of the area's best-known museums reflects how a prominent industrial segment of our region played a vital role in the growth of our country.
As railroad tracks mapped America's expansion in the 1800's, one of the hubs was Altoona.
The creation of Altoona came in the same decade, in the 1850's because of immigrants came to construct Horseshoe Curve.
CLEARFIELD - A Clearfield County man on the run for 47 days was taken into custody Sunday without incident.
Justin Craig, of DuBois, has been wanted since he escaped from the back of a police car in the early-morning hours of May 17, after attempting to burglarize a business in downtown Reynoldsville.
Police said Craig was responsible for five different burglaries at Agway, H&H Hardware, Clearfield Tire, Auto Mike's and Puff Super Value Tobacco Outlet.
MOUNT UNION, Pa. (WJAC) — Governor Josh Shapiro (D) toured a manufacturing facility on Thursday in Huntingdon County to highlight economic development across the commonwealth, as well as his economic agenda.
Pennsylvania has a rich industrial history, once dominating national and international manufacturing. Shapiro used his tour of a Cabinetworks facility in Mount Union to promote Pennsylvania's potential future in the sector.
"Working hand in hand with the private sector," Acting Department of Community and Economic Development Sec.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — About a month after school started, changes are coming to one school district in Cambria County.
Starting Monday, students in the Greater Johnstown School District will be heading back to the classroom for more days during the week. This decision comes after school officials say the past couple of weeks have gone smoothly.
“Since the opening of our schools, our protocols have gone really well for us and the numbers have stayed within in person learning also went really well.
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not the end of the line. But it once was.
When the first New York subway line connected Lower Manhattan to Harlem in 1904, the stop at 145th Street was its terminus. Since that inaugural run, the subway has never ceased running. There were brief blips of interruption after 9/11 and in the last decade for hurricanes and blizzards, but for more than 115 years, the rumbling on the rails has kept the click-clack heartbeat of New York.