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Massive cleanup efforts inVermontand northernNew Yorkdemonstrate that floods are expensive, as Pennsylvanians well know. And the situation in that reg...

In a world increasingly driven by digital connectivity, access to the internet is no longer a luxury — it is a fundamental necessity that allows Penns...

Hundreds of Canadian wildfires that blanketed much of Pennsylvania in acrid smoke this week were started by careless humans, in some cases, and by lig...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A private plane landed on a Pennsylvania Turnpike ramp and crashed into a utility truck in a fatal incident on Wednesday. According...

Something is usually better than nothing — and that’s certainly the case with the debt ceiling compromise. More than a handful of House Republicans ar...

As the debt ceiling showdown moves toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group has offered a path forward on another controversial issue: imm...

We all believe that promises made should correlate to promises kept, especially when those promises are made by government leaders. When it comes to P...

Two recent articles in The Era (in the May 16 and 17 editions, respectively) relevant to the Durham report would make you believe there was nothing fo...

“Build the wall” hasn’t been a sentiment often heard in South Side Chicago. But someone held a sign calling for the barrier, while other residents sho...

Maybe “Seinfeld” wasn’t a show about nothing, after all. Jerry’s brief interaction with a telemarketer during a fourth-season episode probably isn’t a...

As another school year comes to a close, we as parents begin preparations for another summer with our children at home. We have entrusted the educatio...

HARRISBURG — Carbon pricing means little to the average utility customer, polling suggests, despite the policy’s direct connection to air quality, job...

Pennsylvania’s primary election proved to be a good day for liberal financier George Soros and his political operation, as well as for the Democratic ...

Several Pennsylvania courts have found that “skill games” — played on as many as 70,000 video terminals statewide in convenience stores, civic clubs, ...

Pretty much everything you need to know about the Daniel Penny case you can learn from the “Death Wish” movies. Or so you might conclude if you took s...

Alzheimer’s disease is a fatal, progressive illness impacting millions of Americans each day. Past inability to treat the causes of Alzheimer’s has be...

The term “artificial intelligence” often can be applied to members of congressional committees who use hearings to showboat rather than advance the pu...

The debt ceiling debate between the House GOP and President Joe Biden could, if not solved, lead to economic chaos and destruction — so it might seem ...

What do you call someone who claims to support free speech, but continually makes exceptions based on one thing or another, changing with the wind? Yo...

One of us, John Opdycke, founded the national advocacy group Open Primaries in 2009. “Back then it was like opening an institute for UFO research. Peo...