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Republicans who have controlled the state Legislature for all but four of the past 27 years have been able to do so partly because of gerrymandering. ...

HARRISBURG — A plan to redraw lines for Pennsylvania’s congressional districts to account for a decade of population shifts passed the state House on ...

This week, Western nations have been trying to rebuff Russia’s threats to invade Ukraine for the second time in eight years. The talks between the Uni...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Facing criticism from members of his own party over his support of a bid to bring the 2024 Republican National Convention to Pittsb...

The United Way of the Bradford Area is currently accepting applications for the first quarter of Quarterly Impact funding for 2022. Eligible non-profi...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In letters to the Republican National Committee, top officials from Allegheny County — including Pittsburgh’s new mayor and the cou...

LAKE LYNN (AP) — The roof of a stone mine in southwestern Pennsylvania collapsed, killing one worker, authorities said. The collapse was reported Frid...

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...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Anglers sketching out their 2022 plans will need to remember a “Back to the Future” move by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commissi...

For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are told, is ...

Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Gov. Tom Wolf criticized a map for new congressional districts proposed by Pennsylvania House Republicans, accusing them of parti...

READING (TNS) — The surging inflation that has run rampant across the nation hasn’t been bad for everyone. Pennsylvania state legislators saw a $5,000...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday said that he will have a new top election official as he enters his last year in office, naming Leigh Chapma...

In a 288-page report as long and detailed as any Supreme Court ruling, a 34-member, bipartisan presidential commission couldn’t reach consensus on whe...

Imagine knowing that the very act of going to a religious service would likely result in violence and death. In Nigeria, churches have been sent warni...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Hedge fund manager and Gulf War veteran David McCormick is taking his first formal steps toward joining Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senat...

The Pennsylvania House Majority Leader may be a bit hyperbolic. Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre, said he thinks the new preliminary map for redistric...

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...

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania state House committee made a set of party-line votes Monday regarding congressional redistricting, which the Republican ch...