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HARRISBURG (AP) — The deadline for Pennsylvanians to register to vote in the 2024 general election is Oct. 21 — just 15 days before Election Day on No...

HARRISBURG — Longtime homeowners in all but two of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties face the same problem: property tax bills that rise every year, often be...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced that Allegheny National Forest officials are extending the public outreach period to fill committee member ...

Hoping for a calm and peaceful Election Day on Nov. 5, the Sheriffs Association of Pennsylvania is condemning any politically motivated threats or vio...

HARRISBURG — With less than a month to go before the voter registration deadline, House Republicans want Gov. Josh Shapiro to kill the state’s automat...

HARRISBURG — A staff member of Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., will be in the St. Marys district office of state Rep. Mike Armanini, R-DuBois,...

ELECTION: The upcoming presidential election has been dominating the news. We thought we’d take a moment to refresh your memory on how the presidentia...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Activists demanding campaign finance and lobbying reforms staked out the office of Pennsylvania’s state Senate leader on Monday — a...

Since the 2000 presidential election, the left has worked to undermine the legitimacy of the Electoral College, labeling it a relic of slavery. No dou...

(Editor's note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past four ye...

HARRISBURG — A new bill pending in Congress would mandate open primaries across the country, giving roughly 23.5 million registered independents a cha...

One half of the Court of Common Pleas bench in McKean County is vacant with the recent retirement of Judge Christopher Hauser, and it could be 2025 be...

As Americans come together this week to celebrate the 248th anniversary of our nation’s independence, Keep Our Republic (KOR) reaffirms its commitment...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Negotiators continued to work behind closed doors Monday toward reaching agreement on a now late state budget, with one of the unfi...

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...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent nearly $1.8 billion more than was allocated in its annual budgets between 2014 and 2023, according to a...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A Democratic-sponsored proposal to boost public school funding by billions in the coming years and impose stricter rules on cyber-ch...

In 2010, the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United decision, leading to an explosion in political spending and the rise of dark money groups thatex...

Are we witnessing, and participating in, the real-time death of our democracy with eyes wide shut? Most of the democracies that have died since the en...

The Pennsylvania House Education Committee this week approved school funding legislation that, if passed into law, would mean local districts would pa...