PA State News

(The Center Square) – A community is fighting to stop a proposed rail line in Elk County that would move trash through Horton Township to a landfill i...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Education is accepting nominations for the Recognizing Inspiring School Employees (RISE) Award, a federal ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY – As large-scale data center development proposals increasingly target Northeast Pennsylvania, Sen. Rosemary M. Brown, R-40, aims to...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — Pennsylvania saw modest net population growth from July 2024 to July 2025, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, bu...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Criminal investigators hoping to develop suspects in difficult cases have been asking Google to reveal who searched for specific inf...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) encourages 2026-27 college students, graduate students and their parents in D...

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HARRISBURG – Safety lessons learned from the East Palestine train derailment may soon make it into Pennsylvania’s rule books more than three years aft...

BELLEFONTE — U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., announced he will now accept Community Project Funding (CPF) requests for Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27). ...

OLEAN, N.Y. — While the Bradford area and McKean County, Pa. as a whole confront the eventual closure of the emergency department and other services a...

HARRISBURG — Reps. Kathy L. Rapp, R-Warren, and Kristin Marcell, R-Bucks, have authored a letter to Pennsylvania Auditor General Tim DeFoor requesting...

(The Center Square) – Climate and energy experts have praised President Donald Trump’s recent elimination of former President Barack Obama’s Endangerm...

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OIL CITY — A longtime Venango County newspaper company — with publications in Oil City and Franklin as well as Clarion — announced it will shut down o...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The city’s archery white-tailed deer management program culled 142 deer in 10 city parks in the 2025-2026 season, a 28% drop from t...

(TNS) — Maklim Escalante called Brentwood police to report that a drunken man had shown up to his house uninvited and tried to force his way in, accor...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced that the Treasury Department returned more unclaimed property in 2025 than ever before, se...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who spent 43 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned — only to be taken straight into immig...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension has received a national grant to build a microcredentialing system aimed at strengthening the agricultural work...