According to an estimate, 11,000 ponywallas, palanquin owners and pithuwallas, ferry pilgrims to the cave shrine and back to Ban Ganga Following the Pahalgam terror ...

ALTOONA, Pa. — The spring 2025 issue of “Hard Freight,” Penn State Altoona's student literary arts magazine, is now available online. The latest issue showcases 45 works of poetry, short fiction, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to mark the start of its spring festival on Monday. Ishiba gave the shrine a potted plant known as ...

AN article in the Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Trades' Journal of February 16 describes “The Jaffa Citrus Industry”. Oranges were introduced to Jaffa in the tenth century; they delighted the ...

ALTOONA, Iowa — An Altoona family’s home was destroyed in a fire on Friday morning. The Altoona Fire Department responded to a report of a house fire in the 100 block of 21st Street SW at around 10:16 ...

Hosted by PA CareerLink Blair County, the event is set for Thursday, April 17, at the Jaffa Shrine in Altoona. Doors open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with early access for veterans beginning ...

ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — An Altoona man was arrested and now faces rape charges for allegedly having sex with a sleeping woman. William Allen Koch Jr., 46 (Blair County Prison) William Allen Koch Jr., 46 ...

A 6-year-old boy drowned in an Altoona pond Tuesday. The Altoona Police Department was dispatched to Hy-Vee, 108 Eighth St. S.W., for a report of a missing child on Tuesday at around 3:20 p.m ...

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The spirit of that suspension prevailed Saturday at the Jaffa Shrine for Altoona’s 20th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 attacks in an event that mixed equal doses of religion and ...