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Pennsylvania’s relentless gambling expansion has paid off for legislators. The Gaming Control Board reported that the state government collected $2.3 ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Thanks to budget dysfunction in the state Capitol, people filing divorces, estates and many other legal actions across Pennsylvania...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced the Surviving Widow(er) Incom...

State legislators appear to have reached a consensus that Pennsylvania, which long has been a major player in determining the winners of presidential ...

Oh, America; it seems like she was just a toddler and now she’s about to turn 250. To commemorate the moment, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission h...

NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of App...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on October 27, 2022, he walked into its San Francisco headquarters weari...

Pharmaceutical companies have sued to stop the Biden administration’s new initiative for Medicare to negotiate pricing for 10 heavily prescribed drugs...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will kick off its 60th anniversary celebration year Tuesday, by celebrating Founders’ Day from 11:30 a.m. to ...

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff met Wednesday for the first time since a wave of realignment...

WARWICK — The French and Pickering Creek Conservation Trust has recent announced the preservation of more than 175 acres in two locations in Chester C...

MOUNT JEWETT — The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources earlier this year named the Mount Jewett to Kinzua Bridge (MJ2KB) Tra...

Pennsylvania has 2,560 local governments, besides 67 counties and 500 school districts. Each of those governments also has authorities, boards and com...

SMETHPORT — During the McKean County Conservation District’s August Meeting and picnic on Aug. 23, at the Kinzua Bridge State Park, directors and staf...

Public school governance in Pennsylvania often is a train wreck because even though things aren’t what they used to be, state law covering school boar...

Some sportsmen's league leaders are pushing for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to allow the use of semi-automatic rifles for big game hunting. Membe...

By design, including structure and funding, police are arms of the government. As such they are supposed to be subject to civilian control, but rarely...

To the miners living in squalor in southern Elk County, she was a hero; to the executives getting rich off of Shawmut Mining and Railroad, she was “th...

One way government boards deny the public access to documents is by ignoring the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law, such as by significantl...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — More than two years since it was signed into law, Pennsylvania will take its first step to implement the Nurse License Compact early...