political law

Soon it will be Halloween — a time for trick or treat. And then less than a week later it is Nov. 5 — Election Day. And that is when one of the bigges...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The deadline for Pennsylvanians to register to vote in the 2024 general election is Oct. 21 — just 15 days before Election Day on No...

HARRISBURG — Longtime homeowners in all but two of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties face the same problem: property tax bills that rise every year, often be...

Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt has been on a whirlwind tour of, so far, 62 counties, preparing for the upcoming election. He plans to make i...

HARRISBURG — Casting ballots in two different states carries a felony conviction, but lawmakers in Pennsylvania say few voters know about the conseque...

Hoping for a calm and peaceful Election Day on Nov. 5, the Sheriffs Association of Pennsylvania is condemning any politically motivated threats or vio...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As the November election approaches, former President Donald Trump and his allies are amplifying concerns that people who aren’t ...

McKean County is ready for the upcoming general election, expecting high voter turnout but no real security concerns, an official told The Era. Brett ...

HARRISBURG — With less than a month to go before the voter registration deadline, House Republicans want Gov. Josh Shapiro to kill the state’s automat...

ELECTION: The upcoming presidential election has been dominating the news. We thought we’d take a moment to refresh your memory on how the presidentia...

Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court imprudently passed on an opportunity to settle a contentious election law dispute that could influence the re...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania voters will have the same options to vote this year that they had in 2020: In-person at a polling place, a mail-in bal...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A court decided Thursday that voters in the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania can cast provisional ballots in place of mail-...

HARRISBURG — A proposal for election transparency has one state legislator going against the Department of State. At the center of the split: changes ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A Republican-controlled county in Pennsylvania violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters that their mail-in ba...

HARRISBURG — A new bill pending in Congress would mandate open primaries across the country, giving roughly 23.5 million registered independents a cha...

(Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...

The injunction keeping Aliquippa in Class 4A football remains in place after a Commonwealth Court judge denied a PIAA request for a stay. Appellate Ju...

One half of the Court of Common Pleas bench in McKean County is vacant with the recent retirement of Judge Christopher Hauser, and it could be 2025 be...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A western Pennsylvania county’s elected commissioners were sued Monday over a policy adopted for this year’s primary in which people...