politics

HARRISBURG — The group tasked by Gov. Josh Shapiro with developing a state-level plan to fight climate change met for the first time this week, a step...

The state of Illinois recently lost three Fortune 500 companies, and its population has declined by more than 100,000 residents in the past two years....

FDA commissioner Robert Califf said in an interview that aired this week that misinformation is killing Americans — contributing to the fact that our ...

Decades from now, when scholars are debating how the executive branch jumped the rails of any legislative accountability or rational rules, the new Bi...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced that a wildfire was reported in Allegheny National Forest on the afternoon of April 12. The wildfire respon...

Dan Snyder has a deal in place to sell the NFL’s Washington Commanders for the biggest price paid for a North American professional sports team. A gro...

From a broader standpoint, Kelly Unverdorben has been involved in beach volleyball for nearly a decade. She heads up the locally-based, and distinguis...

The Biden administration admits to having made some mistakes — some — in its withdrawal from Afghanistan, but the admission doesn’t come close to ackn...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — What America needs now is a combination of a modern-day Abraham Lincoln and a real-life Ted Lasso. A leader who will inspire all of u...

Medicare’s hospitalization trust fund is on the fast track to insolvency. That has both seniors and future retirees worried. Because our leaders in Wa...

The Pennsylvania Legislature is no stranger to dissension. The state isn’t Democratic or Republican, after all. It isn’t even a muddled, muted purple....

HARRISBURG — On behalf of Gov. Josh Shapiro, Department of Community and Economic Development Acting Secretary Rick Siger is recognizing municipalitie...

HARRISBURG — More oversight for the gambling industry could be coming to Pennsylvania, this time focused on skill games. A proposed regulation would c...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s teacher shortage is worsening, with the state’s education programs producing a record-low number of certified teac...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has been without a full-time leader since the Jan. 6 departure of executive director Set...

Republicans promised a red wave last November and then got faces full of egg. The precarious margin of control of the House, and the failure of Republ...

The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules...

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) opened applications for the fifth class of the Appalachian Leadership Institute (AL...

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Bradford City Council an ordinance was amended regarding fees associated with tickets. Council explained that a pers...

A retired firefighter who threw a fire extinguisher at police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years i...