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HARRISBURG (AP) — An order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out ...

HARRISBURG — An order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wedne...

With tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees ordered to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get t...

SCRANTON (AP) — Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public inf...

In an age in which religiosity is waning, the notion that a person would forgo a medical treatment, perhaps even a life-saving one, because of sincere...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — All of Penn State's faculty and staff atUniversity Parkare now required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 byDec. 8, in order t...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature voted Wednesday to again extend hundreds of regulatory waivers that Gov. Tom Wolf’s admi...

A bill that would allow parents in Pennsylvania to exempt their children from wearing a mask at school cleared a state Senate committee on Tuesday as ...

Articles have been published in the Times Herald voicing displeasure with unmasked and unvaccinated individuals, and attacking our county leaders who ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I was leaving town last week for a long-overdue golf reunion with some buddies when President Joe Biden issued his vaccine mandate o...

Two months after basically declaring the battle against COVID-19 was over, President Joe Biden is answering a resurgence of the virus with a vaccine m...

A statewide mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools went into effect Tuesday with some school districts in open defiance of the Wolf administration, whi...

The Republican leader of the state Senate and a group of parents filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn the Wolf administration's new mask mandate...

In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Gov. Tom Wolf declared an emergency. It was the right move at the time. That does not, however, me...

Whether students and staff should be required to mask up in Pennsylvania schools will remain a local decision, at least for now, after top Republican ...

How is it that a commonsense health protocol — the wearing of a mask — has become a figurative hill to die on when refusing to wear a mask actually co...

There’s a handy device for determining status in American society — whether someone feels obligated to abide by his or her own COVID rules or not. The...

In much of America, vaccine hesitancy has turned into vaccine defiance. Several states have banned or are considering banning demands by businesses th...

WASHINGTON — United States Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., on Tuesday introduce...

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...