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For the estimated 30 million out-of-work Americans struggling to make ends meet during a virus-fueled economic collapse, Friday marks four weeks of li...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Sen. George Borrello has joined a group of Southern Tier and Western New York lawmakers in urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to provide an exempt...

Congressman Glenn Thompson has a lot to say about rural America, and his fellow lawmakers know it. Last Saturday, Thompson, R-Pa., reached a milestone...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high court on Wednesday ruled against an effort by Republican state lawmakers to end Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s pande...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's high court on Wednesday ruled against an effort by Republican state lawmakers to end Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's shutd...

Pennsylvania lawmakers, who have been inundated with complaints from business owners and consumers frustrated by Gov. Tom Wolf’s business closure orde...

“Vote for your crooks, or vote for my crooks. It doesn’t matter because they are all crooks.” Such cynical sentiment was in the air this past weekend ...

“Shocked.” “Disheartened.” “Disgusted.” Those were some of the words used in area party leaders’ reactions to reports that state lawmakers hid nearly ...

The region’s state lawmakers are optimistic about the 2019-20 state budget after Gov. Tom Wolf unveiled his proposal Tuesday, but all cautioned that h...

For most of Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration, the state budget process has been contentious at best and downright hostile at worst. His first three year...

A local lawmaker is a step closer to seeing Auditor Gen. Eugene DePasquale complete an audit of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority, ...

HARRISBURG — Lawmakers and EMS personnel from across the Commonwealth gathered on the steps of the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg Wednesday, issuing a ...

Federal judges have ruled: An application for emergency stay filed by Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania was denied. Republicans had hoped the appli...

State Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, said state Sen. President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati is correct in withholding data requested by the Pennsylvan...

With agreement reached Monday to reopen the government after a weekend of being shut down, Pennsylvania lawmakers reacted to the temporary measure to ...

Federal lawmakers who represent the local area have mixed feelings on who is to blame for a federal government shutdown that came into effect at the s...

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer is calling Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide disaster declaration that targets heroin and opioid ...

A state bill that would ban late-term abortions has the support of local lawmakers and an area pregnancy care center official. Republicans legislators...

Animals now have a voice in McKean County and across Pennsylvania –– and a former state lawmaker Wednesday told area residents how to further that mis...

Hundreds of children across the four-county region will have government-funded health coverage ––at least until February. Federal lawmakers are a step...