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Pennsylvania has had trouble getting the job done with education this year. Funding for the various levels of schooling needs to be approved by the Le...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Mike Braun (R-IN) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition a...

HARRISBURG —Three session days remain on the legislative calendar for this year, but it’s unclear if lawmakers will bring a completed budget along wit...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The taxpayer-supported pool of money that covered most of the $295,000 sexual harassment settlement involving a former top Shapiro ...

News that Sandra Day O’Connor, the Supreme Court’s first woman justice, had died Friday at age 93 brought back fond memories in these offices of her g...

This week senators heard from educators how waiving unfunded mandates could provide relief to Pennsylvania’s financially overburdened schools. Many sa...

The base salary of Pennsylvania’s 253 state legislators is the third highest in the nation behind New York and California, but when benefits are added...

A new analysis from the CATO Institute found that Pennsylvania ranks 18th nationwide for “personal and economic freedom.” The commonwealth rated highe...

WASHINGTON — Safety advocates have spent years pushing for new technologies to address a sharp rise in deaths from truck crashes — up 48% in a decade....

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After more than a decade of uncontrolled experiments by internet platforms on millions of users, there is an emerging possibility ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Now that congressional Democrats have relaunched an effort to ban legacy admissions at top U.S. universities, virtually everyone can ...

Pensions for state employees and teachers have been a wrench in the gears of Pennsylvania government for decades. In 2001, Gov. Tom Ridge signed a law...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Base salaries for lawmakers will soon top $106,000 a year, establishing Pennsylvania again as the third highest paid state legislat...

PHILADELPHIA(TNS) — TheLehigh Valleyschool district that tried to ban an after-schoolSatan Club from meeting on its property earlier this year has agr...

Fifty years ago this week, legislation authorizing construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by...

The Commonwealth Court struck a blow for government accountability and transparency this week when it ruled a Lehigh County school district violated t...

The state House approved a bill Wednesday that would grant unemployment benefits to striking workers – a move Democrats said would level the playing f...

A homeless man charged earlier this week with child pornography was arraigned again Thursday for failing to register with Megan’s Law. Joseph Frontera...

Pennsylvanians can use marijuana for anxiety or epilepsy. They can use it to ease the side effects of chemotherapy or the symptoms of post-traumatic s...