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The sanctity and security of the U.S. Capitol has not been breached since that woeful day in January. But whispers and threats circulate in dark corne...

The future of mail-in voting continues to be debated in the Pennsylvania Legislature, where some Republicans already are proposing new restrictions or...

State Sen. Gene Yaw of Williamsport is correct. The pandemic-induced economic downturn and resulting $5 billion state budget deficit make it highly un...

HARRISURG — Reps. Tina Pickett, R-Towanda, Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and Clint Owlett, R-Liberty, are calling on the state Department of Health to...

Pennsylvania voters will likely soon get the final say about whether to limit the governor’s powers during a disaster emergency after a majority of st...

Lawmakers have had a key priority in the last nine months: to stimulate the American economy and provide relief to citizens facing the worst public he...

The most recent COVID-19 relief package extended an 11th-hour national moratorium on evictions for certain tenants until Jan. 31. That announcement ar...

The idea of having an independent citizens commission draw the congressional and legislative districts in Pennsylvania has died many deaths in the Rep...

Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: Some called the ...

In a case study of unintended consequences, the blizzard of lawsuits by the Trump campaign and related interests against various aspects of the 2020 e...

State lawmakers and other top state officials will not get a cost-of-living salary increase in 2021 because legislators took the unusual step of passi...

The stakes could not be higher. Food insecurity is rising. Unemployment relief is waning. The strands of a virus-related safety net — holds on utility...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — As businesses and schools do all they can to stay open during the pandemic, many are peering nervously over their shoulder. They fea...

The 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania, the first in which any voter could request a mail-in ballot, had more than its share of controversies ...

Pennsylvanians have made tough decisions amid the profound economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of Pennsylvanians lost their jobs tempora...

Pennsylvania is staring at a fiscal cliff. It’s easy but perilous to ignore state budget minutiae amid a contentious presidential election. Right now ...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf, as promised, vetoed a bipartisan-backed bill on Monday that would have given local officials’ authority this year to set c...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The lights went on again Friday night in some high school football stadiums across Pennsylvania, the first games since the state Sup...

Thursday’s state Supreme Court ruling granting a 3-day extension to the deadline to count mail-in ballots was a victory for Democrats, but state Repub...

HARRISBURG -- Monday is the deadline by which Gov. Tom Wolf must make a decision about whether to deny or grant local officials the exclusive authorit...