legislation

Say the word “gun” and you can instantly divide people. Some want to enact laws and restrictions in hopes of curtailing violent crimes. Some are just ...

Herd immunity from the COVID-19 virus is the place we want to be. The quickest and most efficient way of getting there is widespread vaccination. Acro...

A bill that would distinguish the oversight needed for conventional and unconventional oil and gas industries has passed the state House of Representa...

One of the lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic is that the way to stop the spread of a disease is to keep sick people away from healthy ones...

PPG Industries has been fined $1.2 million for using the Allegheny River for 50 years as what amounts to a toxic glass waste dump. The settlement is t...

ERIE —The emotional and long-term costs to victims are most often incalculable in cases of clergy sex abuse, but the abuse scandal has produced a doll...

State legislators trying to strip the executive branch of much of its discretion regarding emergency management have complained that the Wolf administ...

WELLSBORO — Frustrated by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s ongoing failure to commit to restoring the full array of driver and vehicle serv...

WASHINGTON — As National Police Week 2021 continues, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and U.S. Rep. Fred Keller, R-Pa., have announced that they are re-in...

HARRISBURG — Parents would have the option to allow their children to repeat a grade level due to the learning disruptions created by COVID-19 under a...

HARRISBURG — State Senator Cris Dush, R-Brookville, on Wednesday rallied to protect the constitutional rights of law-abiding Pennsylvania firearm owne...

HARRISBURG — The state Senate adopted a plan Wednesday that will allow thousands of older Pennsylvanians to retain eligibility for prescription drug a...

HARRISBURG — State Sen. Chris Dush, R-Brookville, introduced a plan to protect the constitutional rights of law-abiding Pennsylvania firearm owners an...

Tar and chipping will be happening this year on Songbird Road, West Corydon Street and Lang Maid Lane in Bradford Township. The township supervisors o...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., will introduce two bipartisan policing reform bills to address the high incidence rate of violence invo...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate approved legislation this week to allow a family member or other designated person to visit and care for a long-t...

Protesters in Minneapolis, and, for that matter, throughout the country and across the seas, signaled through shouting, jumping, carrying signs and in...

MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate voted to repeal a portion of the state’s school code in order to protect the First Amendment rights of teachers, ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania lawmakers once again must decide whether to take the cellphones out of drivers’ hands. A bill to do just that could se...