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PennDOT’s bid to toll nine interstate bridges across the commonwealth as part of a public-private partnership still has several hurdles to clear. But ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's highest court on Tuesday hammered a final nail into the coffin of a proposed victims' rights constitutional amendment that...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Senate on Wednesday approved legislation to overhaul how probation is handled, in an effort to clamp down on people b...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Pat Pelletier was surprisingly unemotional about the recent Supreme Court arguments in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organizati...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania schoolchildren may soon be attending classes unmasked under a state Supreme Court ruling Friday that threw out the Wolf admi...

WASHINGTON — Congress’ annual defense policy bill will include legislation authored by U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., to hol...

HARRISBURG — A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary on Wednesday defended the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-...

At times, you might have been forgiven for thinking that oral arguments over the Dobbs case were being held before the Health and Human Services Commi...

”Attention all units: Arrest Captain Culpepper.” Fans of classic comedy will recognize that line from the 1963 film, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World....

Attention all units: Arrest Captain Culpepper.” Fans of classic comedy will recognize that line from the 1963 film, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”...

Facebook has had a rough month, and deservedly so. The company has earned a special place of distrust in the hearts of many: A CNN poll published last...

UPPER ST. CLAIR (TNS) — Competing against chants from counter-protesters outside the office of a local Republican state lawmaker, gun safety advocates...

On Nov. 8, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that Pennsylvania schools could set their own mask policies as of Jan. 17, opening the door for districts where par...

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania judge heard conflicting descriptions of the state’s education funding as a trial began Friday in a lawsuit designed to com...

HARRISBURG — A lawsuit that could result in drastic changes to how Pennsylvania funds public education goes to trial Friday in a Harrisburg courtroom,...

Four candidates are vying for two seats on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court, including Bradford resident Stacy Marie Wallace. Wallace, a Republican, ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania House voted unanimously Wednesday to expand income eligibility limits for the state’s prescription drug subsidy pro...

Many readers seem to be noticing something “new” on the landscape across Pennsylvania: splotches of purple on trees and fence posts. I’ve seen specula...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Procedures for a district attorney’s office to operate when the district attorney’s law license has been suspended or revoked passed...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Parents in nine Western Pennsylvania communities have sued state officials and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center over sch...