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NEW YORK (TNS) — In a world where war is waging, disease is ravaging, poverty is crippling and homelessness is out of control, does it really matter a...

Pennsylvania state legislators’ salaries cost at least $25.3 million per year for only about 50 days of session, according to The Philadelphia Inquire...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said starting Tuesday it is making it easier for someone to register to vote when they are getting or ...

I first covered U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney in 2012, when he was “former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,” then running for president. At the time, he was so...

To borrow a device from the recent Republican candidates' debate: Raise your hand if you think that lobbyists influence politicians, officeholders and...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The state is no closer to giving Pitt its proposed $166 million for fiscal 2024 than it was in June when a funding bill failed to p...

As the remains of Hurricane Idalia headed out to sea after lashing Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, irresponsible members of Congress threatened a ...

WARREN — Saturday, Sept. 3, was the 59th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act of 1964 championed by Pennsylvania’s own Howard Zahniser. In last y...

MORE: We found some interesting news stories in the microfilm for the M’Kean Orbit, and were eager to share them. In 1849, it seems some area politici...

It was Aug. 24, 2021, that, in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s meltdown, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became Gov. Hochul, to shape her own record and legacy in Ne...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — State Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward has called an unusual August voting session for next week to deal with unfinished piece...

If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, it’s gotten late before about ...

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, made the right call in bringing members of the upper chamber back to Harrisburg so...

WASHINGTON (AP) — David McCormick had a clear explanation for why his fellow Republican, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost a critical Pennsylvania Senate seat last ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's signing last week of a $45.45 billion spending bill erased growing concerns about delays in funding for schools...

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) announced that, as a result of the passed Commonwealth Budget, the maximum PA...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s overdue state budget moved closer to completion Thursday after Senate Republican leaders summoned their colleagues ba...

T he Pittsburgh Steelers are back in training camp . The team descended on Saint Vincent College in Unity on Wednesday prepared to settle in for the l...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s senators are lauding measures passed as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, saying the bill i...

All four Democratic and Republican caucuses in the state House and Senate have staff lawyers, some of whom are paid more than $200,000 a year. Yet law...