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HARRISBURG — Sen. Cris Dush, R-Brookville, chairman of the State Government Committee, will convene a public hearing Wednesday to receive testimony fr...

At a reception attended by several university presidents in Manhattan, Arizona State President Michael Crowe was asked to ponder a not-too-distant fut...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania health systems are required to give a 90-day notice before closing. It’s a rule that hospitals have ignored in recent ...

How would you feel if somebody moved into your house, sectioned-off half of your rooms and refused to pay rent? Then the guest welcomed his friends, t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — I regret to inform you that this is a column about nothing, because that is what Congress is doing this week. Even with a horrific ...

Government regulators sided with environmental advocates, in part, when they ruled recently that a U.S. Steel plant in the Mon Valley might be violati...

Gov. Josh Shapiro scored a lot of his political clout in one arena — the idea that sexual abuse allegations need to be taken seriously. As Pennsylvani...

HARRISBURG — In the partisan politics of education funding, the school choice movement has pressed states for decades to send taxpayer money to privat...

The debate in the General Assembly over rescheduling next year’s primary opens an opportunity for a wider discussion about calendar changes that would...

There was an error in a story in Wednesday’s Era regarding the appeal of David Frederick. Correctly, Frederick is no longer required to register under...

HARRISBURG — The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a bipartisan legislative agency resource for rural policy within the General Assembly, this week relea...

Lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro find themselves at odds once again over the amount the administration deposited into the state’s Rainy Day Fund. The O...

The United Way of the Bradford Area is currently accepting applications for the fourth quarter of Quarterly Impact funding for 2023. Eligible non-prof...

An appeals court has overturned the Megan’s Law status of a former Duke Center man, and the state attorney general’s office is appealing the matter to...

WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contin...

The Matt Gaetz moment is upon us, and unless you enjoy politics as absurdist theater, you might want to skip it. The bomb-throwing Republican congress...

HARRISBURG — An effort to move Pennsylvania’s presidential primary next year bred new disagreements in the Legislature on Tuesday, as members of a Hou...

Pennsylvania’s small businesses employ over 2.5 million people throughout the commonwealth. But if Gov. Josh Shapiro has his way, thousands of these j...

This week, Oct. 1-7 is designated by the American Library Association as Banned Books Week. It is a week to celebrate the freedom to read and shine a ...

HARRISBURG — Donald Trump has a familiar target in his sights: Pennsylvania’s voting rules. He never stopped attacking court decisions on mail-in ball...