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HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s health secretary will leave her post next week, just four months after taking the job, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office announ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary will resign her post and depart the Wolf administration at the end of December, the governor’...

HARRISBURG — A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary on Wednesday defended the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-...

Wednesday’s ruling by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, which voted 4-1 to overturn the mask mandate set by Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of Health...

HARRISBURG — An order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wedne...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — TheHouse Health Committeeis appealing a decision by a bipartisan panel that upheld the statewide mask order forPennsylvaniaschools ...

HARRISBURG — The statewide mask order for Pennsylvania schools does not need to be enacted through the state’s system of passing governmental regulati...

A Pennsylvania appeals court heard arguments Wednesday on whether the Wolf administration had the legal right to impose a mask mandate on K-12 schools...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The vast majority of Pennsylvanians who have contracted the coronavirus in 2021 were not vaccinated, state officials say, releasi...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republican state lawmakers are taking a different avenue outside of the courts to challenge Pennsylvania Acting Health Secretary Al...

The Republican leader of the state Senate and a group of parents filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn the Wolf administration's new mask mandate...

HARRISBURG — As Pennsylvania hits the milestone that more than 80% of adults have received a dose of the COVID vaccine, the state announced two new in...

Two local counties are showing a zero percent positivity rate for COVID-19, while two others are showing improvement. On Tuesday, data for Elk and Cam...

All four local counties have reached the low level of community transmission of COVID-19. On Tuesday, a report given by Gov. Tom Wolf and Acting Secre...

Potter County was the only county in the state listed in the substantial level of community transmission for COVID-19 as of Tuesday. The county’s posi...

McKean County is the only one in Pennsylvania to be listed in the category of substantial community spread of COVID-19. In the weekly status report is...

There’s only five counties in the state where COVID-19 is still at the substantial level of community transmission, and McKean and Potter are both on ...

The region’s rates of positivity for COVID-19 remain highest in the state, but the numbers of additional cases of the virus are down across the region...

HARRISBURG — Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam announced that Pennsylvania is adopting the CDC’s recommendation that fully vaccinated ...

More than 11,000 people in the region are partially vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine, and more than 23,000 have been fully vaccinated. With a tota...