parliament and legislative bodies

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The migratory swallows that famously return on the same day each year to Capistrano, California, were due Sunday. Another perennial event, in this cas...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is introducing legislation to lower costs for the more than 20 million Americans seeking opioid treatment, in...

As the debate around the timing of the opening day of the Pennsylvania’s firearms deer season continues, a Lehigh Valley legislator has joined the ran...

GREENCASTLE (TNS) — Doug Mastriano was back on the political stage in Pennsylvania over the weekend, hosting the first political rally under his “Walk...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania Legislature’s spending, including on lawmaker and staff salaries, rose last year, and its surplus also grew to a re...

Heard of the malady termed “do-somethingism”? Certain elected officials are particularly susceptible, especially after a much-publicized disaster. It ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Helping people who were raped and molested when they were children decades ago should have been the easiest task of the year for th...

Before Tuesday, no woman ever had been speaker of the state House in Pennsylvania. Whether dating to William Penn presiding over the first colonial as...

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania lobbyist on Wednesday named the Democratic state representative who she says sexually harassed her four years ago, going p...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — John Fetterman’s public acknowledgement that he suffers from depression and needs professional treatment could be his most significa...

WASHINGTON — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional wo...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, still recovering from a stroke, has checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medic...

In recent years, a leading manufacturing company headquartered in Pennsylvania was exploring locations for a $3 billion expansion that would support 9...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is pushing for minimum staffing standards in nursing homes. Casey, chairman of the Senate Committee on Aging,...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman was released from a Washington, D.C., hospital early Friday evening, his spokesman Joe Calvello said in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who had a stroke during his campaign last year, has been hospitalized after feeling lightheaded wh...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The recent audit that questioned school property tax hikes in Bethlehem, Northampton and other Pennsylvania communities should anger...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is all that is left of what was once the Republican establishment. Sure, there are still some GOP voters who ag...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — If you couldn’t perform all of your duties, would your boss still pay your full salary? We all know the answer. In the real world, y...