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HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said starting Tuesday it is making it easier for someone to register to vote when they are getting or ...

HARRISBURG — Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor on Tuesday announced the release of an audit for the pension plan of Genesee Township, Potter County. T...

Complaints are already coming in on the new New York state requirement for a state police background check on ammunition, which went into effect last ...

Part of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) enacted in Pennsylvania in 2021 takes effect this month, allowing nurses who hold a multistate license to be...

Users' trust in Google took yet another hit Thursday. The tech titan agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state ofCaliforniaresolving allegatio...

Pennsylvania needs to increase its investment in public schools by $6.2 billion to help students meet graduation rate goals and proficiency on state e...

While Penn State trustees are pinning their hopes on a break in the deadlock that has held up the release of this year’s state funding for the univers...

To borrow a device from the recent Republican candidates' debate: Raise your hand if you think that lobbyists influence politicians, officeholders and...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The state is no closer to giving Pitt its proposed $166 million for fiscal 2024 than it was in June when a funding bill failed to p...

Officials tasked with monitoring the state’s medical marijuana program said this week edibles don’t belong in Pennsylvania’s marketplace. Concerns abo...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Thanks to budget dysfunction in the state Capitol, people filing divorces, estates and many other legal actions across Pennsylvania...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced the Surviving Widow(er) Incom...

Economic fallacies are like horror movie villains. They just won’t stay dead. Last week, the Biden administration announced it had selected 10 drugs f...

NEW YORK — A company that sold triggers that make semi-automatic, AR-15-style rifles fire like automatic weapons likely misled consumers that the devi...

State legislators appear to have reached a consensus that Pennsylvania, which long has been a major player in determining the winners of presidential ...

WARREN — Saturday, Sept. 3, was the 59th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act of 1964 championed by Pennsylvania’s own Howard Zahniser. In last y...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on October 27, 2022, he walked into its San Francisco headquarters weari...

Pharmaceutical companies have sued to stop the Biden administration’s new initiative for Medicare to negotiate pricing for 10 heavily prescribed drugs...

Let’s say you hate Donald Trump and really, really, really don’t want him to become president of the United States again. How do you prevent that? Wel...

Pennsylvania has 2,560 local governments, besides 67 counties and 500 school districts. Each of those governments also has authorities, boards and com...