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Pennsylvania localities are getting rid of small, part-time police departments — requiring Pennsylvania State Police to take on public safety duties w...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Achieving the American dream of homeownership can be tough these days between a shortage of housing stock and the high cost of borr...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced the launch of the redesigned PA ABLE Savings Program website, paable.gov . The new website, Garrity sai...

HARRISBURG — Education and outreach staff from the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (DoBS) will host Fraud Bingo for groups of senior...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and David Trone, D-Md., have introduced the Health Care Worker and First Responder Fairness Act, w...

HARRISBURG — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) State Parks Director John Hallas announced the beginning of a construction projec...

When Pennsylvanians call a state government agency, they expect to receive help. It’s my job as a state legislator to step in when agencies aren’t doi...

RIDGWAY — North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission’s Board of Directors has given its stamp of approval to the FY25 Tra...

Mary’s little lamb has done a bit more than follow her to school. At Otto-Eldred High School, raising lambs in school is the newest part of the FFA pr...

In his second budget as Pennsylvania’s chief executive, Gov. Josh Shapiro has a chance not just to boost funding in the short term for Pennsylvania’s ...

North Central Workforce Development Board (Workforce Solutions for North Central PA) representatives want all recent graduates and students impacted b...

University of the Arts student Joey Miller was a sophomore studying film animation when the Philadelphia Inquirer broke the news that UArts was shutti...

A dollar just doesn’t stretch these days as far as it used to — especially at the grocery store. For the last 20 years, lots shoppers have come to rel...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When former President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans last week that he was thinking about replacing the income tax with an “...

Attitudes toward four-year college degrees have changed rapidly over the past decade, yet schools that offer career-focused associates degrees are sti...

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Local chambers of commerce from across Pennsylvania, including Bradford, submitted a letter to state lawmakers urging them to address the commonwealth...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) —Despite a decade of statewide improvements to infrastructure, the percentage of Pennsylvania bridges in poor condition is still near...

(TNS) — We have a child care crisis in the United States. And as a child care education provider, I know how to fix it: Put families first. The U.S. B...

Disabled veterans in Pennsylvania no longer have to claim their monthly benefits as income when applying for state aid programs. Gov. Josh Shapiro sig...