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HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania took a step Tuesday toward becoming the latest state to punish someone for using a Bluetooth-connected device to track ...

Most Americans appreciate that press freedom is vital to the health of a free and open society. Unfortunately, that appreciation runs an inch deep, as...

The McKean Co. Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees met April 24, at the United Methodist Church in Eldred with 43 in attendance...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Second Amendment Caucus chairs Sen. Cris Dush and Rep. Abby Major, along with other pro-Second Amendment state lawmakers, wi...

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It was a night of change at Tuesday’s meeting of Bradford City Council, as Chip Comilla retired and Brett Butler was named fire chief. Comilla has ser...

HARRISBURG — However contradictory the term “squatter’s rights” may sound, it is a growing concern that’s prompted lawmakers to seek additional protec...

On Saturday, the capitals of four democracies were strengthened when the U.S. House finally passed long-stalled foreign-aid bills. The three overseas ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court has kept alive an Italian heritage group’s challenge to efforts by the city of Pittsburgh to remove a s...

A group of eight Democratic progressive U.S. House members known as “The Squad” have filed $224 million of earmarks in the federal budget since 2023 t...

PITTSBURGH — Darken the circle that corresponds with the answer. Mark only one answer per question. Fill in each bubble completely; do not mark in the...

HARRISBURG – This week state lawmakers took aim at the corporate megaliths that pharmacists say are squeezing out competition, creating pharmacy deser...

State agencies across the commonwealth gather data on jobs, employment, and the economy — but they struggle to share it, hamstringing how useful it is...

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s first draft of carbon capture and storage regulation recently cleared a big legislative hurdle – Senate approval. Chief ad...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Alexa Kutch, like many teachers, has made a habit of buying things for her classroom – from posters to decorate the walls to lamps ...

Democrats have a tendency to elevate short-term political gain above more comprehensive strategies — sometimes with results they later regret. Harry R...

Near the core of their beliefs on American politics and voting in elections, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity and state Sen. Cris Dush both prefer...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — How grotesque to watch long-term U.S. security interests hang on the outcome of a political battle between the Hamlet-like speake...

America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously expensi...

State Rep. Scott Conklin, D-Centre, recently broke the charging port in his cell phone. (We won’t ask him how.) But when the manufacturer told him the...