parliament and legislative bodies

As energy and environmental issues remain central in Pennsylvania for 2024, the partisan divide in the General Assembly means compromise on major issu...

As we enter a presidential election year, pundits are focused on the incessant drama — criminal and otherwise — swirling around a potential rematch be...

(TNS) — A Democratic state senator is making the rare call for an ethics investigation into fellow senator Doug Mastriano’s efforts to try to overturn...

WASHINGTON — It’s the end of 2023 and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has released a list of what he’s accomplished for Pennsylvania — and it’s a lot. Casey he...

Over the last year, Pennsylvania set out in earnest to meet federal goals for the electric vehicle transition. It’s been an expensive and complex proc...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — At his suburban St. Louis home, Brett Koenig can pull out his smartphone and open a sports betting app. But he can’t place ...

In 1897, after a fire devastated the Pennsylvania Capitol, the legislature met at Grace Methodist Church in Harrisburg. Even a gutted Capitol couldn’t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Just hours after the announcement that U.S. Steel would be sold to a Japanese company, U.S. senators from opposite parties but neig...

HARRISBURG — It was 1998, and time and modern safety requirements had caught up with the cavernous 92-year-old Capitol building chamber where the Keys...

Washington in recent decades hasn’t been synonymous with prudent fiscal management — witness the national debt roaring past $33 trillion — but the Pen...

Electric vehicle owners in Pennsylvania could be required to pay an annual fee — potentially the highest in the nation — for the privilege of driving ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — House Republicans plan to flee the Capitol this week for the holidays after almost 12 months in power. And flee they should: If the...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced two bills to combat the youth mental health crisis by making peer and sch...

A post-election evaluation by the Senate State Government Committee was amiable between Republican senators and the secretary of the commonwealth with...

George Santos, assuming that’s his real name, is a classic type, and in another era he’d be selling miracle elixirs out of a horse-drawn wagon or perh...

HARRISBURG —Three session days remain on the legislative calendar for this year, but it’s unclear if lawmakers will bring a completed budget along wit...

The base salary of Pennsylvania’s 253 state legislators is the third highest in the nation behind New York and California, but when benefits are added...

ATHENS, Ga. (TNS) — Congressional dysfunction took a dangerous turn this month. In the House, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy allegedly elbowed Rep. Tim...

Pennsylvanians can use marijuana for anxiety or epilepsy. They can use it to ease the side effects of chemotherapy or the symptoms of post-traumatic s...