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HARRISBURG — The Department of Human Services (DHS) announced the 2025-26 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) season will begin taking ...

HARRISBURG — One budget, two narratives. As Gov. Josh Shapiro spent his holiday weekend touting the policy wins baked into the long overdue state budg...

ALTOONA — Health care workers in Altoona held a vigil Monday night to demand increased safety for hospital employees. The event came weeks after UPMC ...

HARRISBURG — A new partnership between the Pennsylvania Treasury Department and Gift of College provides family and friends the ability to purchase gi...

HARRISBURG – Responding to the tragic death of 2-year-old Oakley Hedlund in Bradford earlier this year, Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, has introdu...

(TNS) — Despite more than a third of women reporting moderate to severe menopause symptoms in 2021, few sought treatment, according to a new study by ...

(TNS) — State police Corporal Joshua Mack is suing the Pennsylvania State Police in federal court, arguing that he lost a lucrative position on the go...

(TNS) — What was once the centerpiece of Pennsylvania’s clean energy push is dead. Long live clean energy? Although not quite with the speed of royal ...

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STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — The Penn State trustees’ recently updated bylaws that limit board members’ press interactions raise serious First Amendment conc...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Like a symphony that each orchestra plays a little bit differently, the installation of the Pennsylvania Capitol’s Christmas tree i...

HARRISBURG — With food banks reporting major increases in demand even before the battle to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program last mon...

(The Center Square) – States around the country, hooked on billions of federal dollars that flooded in during COVID, don't want the party to end. But ...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Dave Sunday has joined a coalition opposed to plans at the federal level to preempt state laws addressing artificial int...

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) and Department of Education (PDE) highlighted life-changing Early Intervention progra...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — There is a $5,000 reward to anyone providing information leading to the identification of the source of death threat letters sent to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue...

HARRISBURG – Mid-month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released its new Notice of Funding Oppor tunity, revealing major cuts to progr...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday joined a bipartisan coalition of 25 attorneys general and the City of New York in sending a let...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity commended the General Assembly for the passage of House Bill 1176, which she said improves the state’s unclaimed ...