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The two Republican congressmen who represent Pennsylvania’s central Northern Tier say a roughly $1.7 trillion social and environmental spending bill p...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will formally study petitions seeking to require oil and gas well owners to...

HARRISBURG — The top two executives at Pennsylvania’s largest public pension system will leave their jobs under resolutions approved by the system’s b...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A Republican-fueled majority in the Pennsylvania House has given final approval to a bill that would end the state’s longstanding p...

Sen. Pat Toomey is no fan of a U.S. Postal Service pilot program testing the viability of local post offices providing limited banking services to cus...

On Nov. 8, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that Pennsylvania schools could set their own mask policies as of Jan. 17, opening the door for districts where par...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania could become a leader in studying magic mushrooms as a treatment for mental illness under a bill that was introduced l...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Skill games ... AKA the ones that got away in Pennsylvania’s 15-year affair with expanded legal gambling. Pennsylvania State Police...

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania judge heard conflicting descriptions of the state’s education funding as a trial began Friday in a lawsuit designed to com...

HARRISBURG — Jake Corman, the ranking Republican in Pennsylvania’s state Senate, will run for governor in next year’s election, a political adviser sa...

HARRISBURG (AP) — An order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out ...

HARRISBURG — An order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wedne...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The orange barrel brigade that identifies road and bridge construction could grow by as much as 50% over the next five years under ...

Thirteen Republicans in the U.S. House helped provide the margin to get the Democrats’ $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed late Friday — Reps. Gl...

VFW Post 212 and its Frances Sherman VFWA will honor its Veterans with a dinner on Saturday. Cocktails will be at 5 p.m. with dinner following at 6 p....

Area lawmakers agree that people should get vaccinated, but say the taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for incentives for state employees to get the CO...

CAMP HILL — The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation is seeking nominations for its 2022 Annual Parks and Forests Awards. The awards recognize th...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Tom Wolf and leading Senate Democrats went on the attack this week against a Republican-backed bill that would let Pennsylvani...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania House voted unanimously Wednesday to expand income eligibility limits for the state’s prescription drug subsidy pro...

A road-killed deer found near the southwest edge of the Pennsylvania elk range has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, leading the Pennsylvan...