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HERSHEY — Nearly 4,000 people representing local governments across the state’s 1,546 townships gathered in Hershey this week for the Pennsylvania Sta...

HARRISBURG —The House Aging and Older Adult Services committee advanced two bills safeguarding Pennsylvania seniors to the House floor. The first, Hou...

Talk is cheap, but moving is expensive. That’s why it’s worth looking at which states attract the most new residents. Last month, StorageCafe, a listi...

HARRISBURG - As the housing crisis continues in Pennsylvania and homelessness continues to rise, policymakers are considering strategies to reduce bar...

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose Monday as Wall Street took President Donald Trump's latest threat on tariffs in stride. The S&P 500 climbed 0.7%, coming o...

The new year is always a great opportunity to shed vices like smoking and binge eating. For state and local lawmakers, their guilty pleasure tends to ...

HARRISBURG — Twenty-one states across the US are raising the minimum wage in 2025. Pennsylvania Democrats would like to see the commonwealth soon join...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” Milton Friedman once said. In other words, don’t blame greed — blame th...

DEAR RUSTY: I had to start collecting Social Security at 62, and I am 75 now. I believe that in the last 13 years I have saved Social Security money, ...

In his latest email to constituents, U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson once again shows that he sides with business over workers. He criticized the Biden admin...

HARRISBURG — The American Tort Reform Foundation has labeled Pennsylvania as the nation’s worst “Judicial Hellhole” in a new report. “Lawsuit abuse in...

BALTIMORE (TNS) — Kamala Harris’ historic campaign , which launched with joy and once seemed destined for an inevitable victory , is now dogged by dou...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected...

STATES: Every state excels at something. That’s the idea behind the US News & World Report’s Best States list. The list noted: “Pennsylvania is famous...

HARRISBURG — In the battleground of Bucks County on Wednesday, Republican Senate Candidate Dave McCormick focused on the rising cost of living. “Famil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Going into November’s election, neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has a decisive edge with the public on the economy, turning a...

HARRISBURG — At a Courtyard Marriott in the Philadelphia suburbs, Dave McCormick rallied his campaign troops. Preparing to scatter across the subdivis...

AFFORDABLE: While inflation has slowed, high prices are still eating into household budgets — like $5 to $8 for a box of cereal. Home prices, rent and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to propose on Wednesday a tenfold increase in federal tax incentives for small business startup e...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Biden-Harris administration’s latest student loan bailout scheme, it potential...