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An Illinois state legislator proposed a bill in which neither the state nor health insurance providers would have to pay for COVID-19-related medical ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — UPMC officials said Friday they are losing staff to traveling nurse agencies which pay triple what nurses previously earned. They h...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvanians who use federal student loan forgiveness programs won’t have to worry about being hit with an unexpected surprise in...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s public schools’ retirement cost crisis is still a raging fire consuming billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars a ye...

President Joe Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats are racing to pass their massive social spending bill, known as Build Back Better, before Christmas. Ma...

Only last week, we learned that one Donald J. Trump was, in effect, the Typhoid Mary of the COVID-19 epidemic during the 2020 campaign. What’s more, u...

The rural Pennsylvania Wilds region is a finalist for up to $100M in investment to grow its outdoor recreation industry, officials said Monday. A tota...

The Bradford Sanitary Authority reported significant progress this year with assessment and repairs to both the sanitary and the storm water system. T...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office has a but few more weeks to persuade as many local governments as possible to accept a s...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Turnpike will install overhead tolling gantries on nine bridges that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation...

In his quest to make his country the undisputed leader of the global economy, China’s President Xi Jinping can learn a lot from his next-door neighbor...

Igniting a new flame in the gaming community, Zippo has announced an integrated marketing partnership with an esports pioneer, the Pittsburgh Knights....

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania regulators have released a long-awaited final draft of rules to cut releases of smog-forming and climate warming air p...

There has been a lot of talk about how the labor shortage — in Pennsylvania and around the country — is hitting different industries hard. It’s changi...

Have you ever dreamed about driving across the United States? Taking the open road with just your suitcase, a water bottle, your cell phone, and some ...

NEW YORK — Facing a cold-weather surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that masks will be required in all indoor p...

HARRISBURG —Pennsylvania food banks will receive nearly $11.4 million from a portion of the state’s allocation of federal American Rescue Plan Act (AR...

There has been a lot of talk about how the labor shortage — in Pennsylvania and around the country — is hitting different industries hard. It’s changi...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission has awarded almost $2 million in cultural and historical support grants to 154 eligible m...

Editor's note: Laree Sue Behan was misidentified with an incorrect last name in the original version of this article. The Era apologizes for the error...