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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission takes a lot of flak, especially at this time of year. It happens like clockwork. While other people are strugglin...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Motorists traveling the Pennsylvania Turnpike will not only pay 5% more in tolls starting Sunday, Jan. 8, but will face more aggres...

Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability. They won’t increase the state government’s percentage of school funding be...

Toll scofflaw legislation is easy, but hard work is needed on other PennDOT, turnpike problems Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a new law last week g...

Pennsylvania is filled with natural beauty. The rivers. The forests. The mountains. The state is teeming with wildlife from the valleys of the southwe...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The amount of uncollected Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went up dramatically in the past year — nearly 48% — but the agency says that...

As a result of court rulings and negotiations between Gov. Tom Wolf and Republicans in the General Assembly, the plan to charge tolls on nine bridges ...

When an appellate court on Thursday shot down the Wolf administration’s plan to impose tolls on nine major highway bridges, it added urgency to the ne...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Commonwealth Court issued a ruling Thursday declaring the state Department of Transportation violated the law when it initiated...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Public hearings will be held this week on two of the more controversial bridges on the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s ...

TOPS #623 SMETHPORT — The weekly meeting of TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY #623 met on Tuesday evening with weigh-ins at the East Smethport United Christian...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Turnpike is reviewing proposals for a contract to process toll payments and expand the ways motorists can pay. The...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The numbers are large and sound awful: The Pennsylvania Turnpike failed to collect just under $105 million in tolls last year, up a...

PennDOT’s bid to toll nine interstate bridges across the commonwealth as part of a public-private partnership still has several hurdles to clear. But ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Glenn Thompson said a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s virtual briefing on proposed tolls for Interstate 80 bridges was “...

HARRISBURG — A plan to add tolls on nine bridges suffered a setback Tuesday when the Pennsylvania state House passed a bill to void the proposal, alth...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania senators grilled turnpike executives over their efforts to collect unpaid tolls that amounted to $104 million last year duri...

In 2019, the first Pennsylvania toll booths started to change as the Turnpike Commission switched from a mix of manned stations and machines to a new,...

Taxes are one of those things that seem as permanent as a scar, indelible as a tattoo. It is one of the reasons we bristle when one is proposed. We ha...

PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...