institutions

As Pennsylvania’s population shrinks or stagnates in many areas, state lawmakers say they don’t want to leave housing policy up to local governments a...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) is pleased to announce that John Sherry has been recognize...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators John Fetterman, D-Pa., Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, introduced the Railway Accountability Act to address ad...

Penn State hired VCU’s Mike Rhoades on Wednesday as its men’s basketball coach, bringing in the Pennsylvania native to take over a program coming off ...

MECHANICSBURG — My brother is a 66-year-old with significant life challenges with autism, aging and his fragile health. He and I are encouraged that G...

JUNIATA: We admit to still getting a bit excited when we get a package in the mail. On Tuesday, one came from the Juniata River Valley Visitor’s Burea...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania State Police are budgeting for a significant hiring push in the coming budget year, but a broad decline in applica...

The Pennsylvania Turnpike was created under a simple concept: Drivers would pay tolls and the revenue would be used to pay for operations, constructio...

HARRISBURG — The pandemic’s impact on income growth aside, lawmakers say workers need not wait for another “once-in-a-century” emergency to earn a liv...

Horse racing’s efforts to clean up the sport and level the playing field take another step forward Monday with the launch of a new anti-doping program...

HARRISBURG — As officials from the Department of Environmental Protection justified their budget to lawmakers, contentions over a carbon tax and permi...

Government employees need not fret how wild swings in financial markets will affect their pensions. Public employment is the last bastion of the "defi...

PORT ALLEGANY — In January 2016, Fire Chief Dana Spitler contacted James Young, Director of Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center (SHCTC), to d...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Hundreds of advocates for tighter gun laws rallied Thursday in Harrisburg, demanding action on a slate of bills that were described...

If Pennsylvania legislators ever wonder why they might not be seen as completely trustworthy, they need only to look to their track record of how they...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania educators say the “dignified” retirement promised to them decades ago no longer exists thanks to record inflation and benefi...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A former state lawmaker was forced to resign her position on a commonwealth board after taking a second state government job. Margu...

Officials with Futures Rehabilitation Center report that the new program facility is ahead of schedule. Futures’ new building — the name of which will...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s first state budget proposal perpetuates unsustainable spending and fails to address the most promising ideas he put forward during...

HARRISBURG — The railroad at the heart of the hazardous train crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border offered vague answers Monday about who agreed to...