politics

It really is like Christmas in July for the Eldred Borough and the borough’s water authority, both of which received news of millions of reasons to sm...

LEWISBURG — The boy shuffled, silently, in the wet grass beneath a maple tree, looking like a little blue ghost in his rain poncho. The sky was deep p...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ron Raccuia, who played the lead role in negotiating Buffalo’s new $1.54 billion stadium deal, is out as the Bills’ top executive...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — State Rep. Sara Innamorato resigned from the House on Wednesday, a move which will give her more time to focus on her campaign for ...

Campaign talk is cheap, but if President Joe Biden meant any of his 2020 talk of uniting Americans, he’s clearly succeeding, just not in the way he in...

A long, cold state budget impasse marks the long, hot summer at the state Capitol. Lawmakers will beat the heat by taking off the rest of the summer —...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s my full-time job but wallowing in our broken politics can sometimes make for a dark world. Why wouldn’t I look forward to goin...

There has been a highly political battle on Capitol Hill — actually, that’s the only kind of battle they have on Capitol Hill — over U.S. defense poli...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced two bills on Tuesday to address food in...

WARREN (AP) — The Warren County prosecutor said Tuesday that he has asked the state attorney general’s office to take over the investigation surroundi...

WASHINGTON CROSSING (TNS) — Flooding downpours were all but inevitable, forecasters were warning during a weekend so steamy that it seemed that the sa...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When this column appears, I will have just arrived in Odesa, Ukraine. I want to see how Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are fari...

House Republicans voted to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs and personnel at the Pentagon, and one wonders whether the U.S. military will ...

The White House wallowed in a bit of good news last week when the Labor Department revealed that inflation in June had cooled to its lowest pace — 3% ...

Saturday is a momentous occasion at Kinzua Bridge State Park — the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the tornado that completely changed the pa...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University professors Dr. Benjamin Gross and Dr. Samantha Gavin have co-authored the book “Framing the Police ...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Senators, Bob Casey and John Fetterman, introduced the Veterans Exposed to Toxic (VET) PFAS Act to require...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It isn’t hard to imagine Gov. Josh Shapiro as one of those children who preferred “The McLaughlin Group” to “Sesame Street;” who to...

A federal judge last week held that the federal government tried to skirt the First Amendment when it pressured social media companies to suppress “mi...

A state appellate court struck a strong blow for government transparency last week and, in the process, illustrated why the state’s Right-to-Know Law ...