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HARRISBURG (TNS) — Most Pennsylvanians want the state to use a chunk of federal American Rescue Plan funding to cover part of a $1.4 billion backlog i...

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary race was a bidding war in which the various candidates advocated spending trillions of dollars to enact sweep...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s latest plan for cutting pollution to the Chesapeake Bay is still inadequate, so the U.S. Environmental Protection Ag...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s health secretary will leave her post next week, just four months after taking the job, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office announ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — When Pennsylvania House Republicans proposed sweeping changes last year to the state’s 2019 election law, Rep. Seth Grove warned Go...

Nearly 20 years ago, when state Sen.Ed Helfrickwas asked why he thought it was appropriate to spend more than $600 of public money every month for his...

PORT ALLEGANY — If elected governor, Josh Shapiro would be “uncompromising” in defense of women’s right to choose and voting and workers’ rights, but ...

The forests of Pennsylvania may be our backyards, but to lawmakers in Harrisburg, there are mysteries aplenty deep in those trees. Next week, in an ef...

State Rep. Jonathan Fritz has concocted an efficient but dangerous plan to hasten Department of Environmental Protection permit reviews. On a mostly p...

The BRADFORD BRANCH of the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN met on Saturday, April 9 at the Church of the Nazarene. After welcoming members an...

It’s hard to say exactly when the Republican state legislative majorities abandoned the legislative process, since they didn’t do much with it even wh...

You may read about them in the newspaper or see them along local roads, plowing snow in the winter or patching potholes in the spring. They’re your to...

Frank Burns gets it! Not the bumbling doctor from MASH, but the Democratic state representative from Cambria County. Just like anyone else who has sou...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — More than race or ethnicity, poverty has been the single biggest factor in who lived and who died from COVID-19. That’s according t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has asked the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take e...

On Ukraine, the neo-isolationists of the right are fighting the last war. They warn of a return to the belligerent mood that led to the U.S. invasion ...

A large group of dapperly dressed McKean County residents learned about the Republican slate of candidates for the upcoming primary during the county ...

The Smethport Area Piecemakers’ Quilters’ Guild will be hosting a Quilt Of Valor Sew-In on April 30th at the St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church,...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A Republican proposal to prevent transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports passed the Pennsylvania House Education Co...

HARRISBURG — A Republican proposal to prevent transgender girls from competing in girls' school sports passed the Pennsylvania House Education Committ...