PA State News
Nov 30, 2022
A Westmoreland County judge on Tuesday ordered machine recounts of election results from four voting precincts, but in doing so rejected requests to r...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 17, 2022
Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 15, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — His prayers unanswered, Republican Doug Mastriano finally conceded on Sunday night that he lost Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial electio...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 04, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — It’s human nature to do things at the last minute. You don’t get your car inspected until just before the old inspection expires. Yo...
Round the Square
Nov 03, 2022
VOTE 411. Election information is useful this close to voting. The nonpartisan group, League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, has an excellent resourc...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 28, 2022
On Nov. 8, millions of Pennsylvanians will go to the polls to cast their vote in the midterm election. In addition, the more than 1.3 million Pennsylv...
News, PA State News
Oct 19, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The General Election will take place Nov. 8 for in-person voting, but registered voters in Pennsylvania can request a mail ballot or...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 07, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Now that the state Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of mail voting, it’s time for critics to stop whining about it and...
Editorials
Aug 01, 2022
The House select committee hearings into the Capitol insurrection have established two facts virtually beyond debate: One, former President Donald Tru...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 15, 2022
The new state budget resolves one problem that arose during the volatile 2020 election season. But because Republican lawmakers know a politically use...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 20, 2022
Some see the one-day delay in counting mail-in ballots from Tuesday's primary as just one more misfire byLuzerne County'smistake-prone election system...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 16, 2022
Over years of following American politics, I’d come to regard Joe Biden as harmless — a back-slapper without strong conviction, given to exaggeration ...
News
Jan 07, 2022
HARRISBURG — More extreme time pressures could push the bounds of how Pennsylvania’s elections are run in 2022, with wide-open races for a U.S. Senate...
News
Jun 23, 2021
HARRISBURG— Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, on Tuesday joined a majority in the state House in supporting the Voting Rights Protection Act, a compr...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 15, 2021
Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about their prospects in the 2020 election. Some saw Joe ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 24, 2021
The future of mail-in voting continues to be debated in the Pennsylvania Legislature, where some Republicans already are proposing new restrictions or...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 15, 2021
As the U.S. Senate pressed through its final days of the second impeachment trial of America’s 45th president, Donald Trump, it is important that we r...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 23, 2020
No one expected Donald Trump to handle a defeat in the 2020 election well. It was predictable he’d deny that he really lost and allege the vote was ri...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 12, 2020
In its effort to challenge vote counts in key states, the Trump campaign has filed lots of lawsuits that have little chance of winning. But there is o...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 11, 2020
Pennsylvania long has been considered a presidential “swing” state, to the point that it has been the hinge on the White House door for the past two p...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
