Win in court doesn’t assure more Pennsylvania school funding Pennsylvania is the latest state where the public school funding system was found to be unconstitutional, but the experience... Local News 15 Feb 2023 | 03:29
Resuming Medicaid case checks confronts 3.6M in Pennsylvania The federal government’s pandemic-era prohibition against kicking people off Medicaid is ending, meaning that hundreds of... Local News 07 Feb 2023 | 01:42
Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania spoke during his first Capitol news conference after the election, Nov. 16, 2022, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy) ( Marc Levy / AP) Shapiro’s bipartisanship talk welcome in fight-weary Capitol Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro will take office next month talking about how voters across the political spectrum in... Home 21 Dec 2022 | 08:12
Wolf needs to score bigger climate victories, activists say (AP) Gov. Tom Wolf has notched perhaps his biggest victory in his strategy to fight climate change in Pennsylvania, but climate-change... Local News 10 Sep 2021 | 06:22
GOP lawmakers go to court to challenge mail-in voting law Voting. (AP) Fourteen Republican lawmakers have filed a new lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law, calling... Police & Fire 08 Sep 2021 | 12:50
People lined up as they waited to speak about mask mandates before the Delaware Valley school board at a recent meeting (Photo by Frances Ruth Harris) Pennsylvania mandates masks in K-12 schools, day cares (AP) Masks will be required in all Pennsylvania public and private schools, as well as child care facilities, Gov. Tom Wolf... Local News 02 Sep 2021 | 09:25
Mail-in voting law spurring new tensions over elections Voting. (AP) County officials reprised their call for fixes to Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law to help them run a smoother... Local News 09 Jun 2021 | 12:00
Restaurants, bars to see some pandemic limits lift in April (AP) Gov. Tom Wolf will expand more business and event capacity limits and lift a raft of long-standing coronavirus restrictions... Local News 17 Mar 2021 | 01:00
Wolf to seek more school funding, tax increase School funding. (AP) Gov. Tom Wolf will propose a sweeping new plan to dramatically boost funding for public schools, to... Local News 07 Feb 2021 | 03:30
The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by PA Senator Lisa Baker (R-20), passed Kayden’s Law along with legislation to reform the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases and enhance penalties for child pornography during the senate’s first meeting of the 2021-22 legislative session. Baker is pictured at the reopening of the Mott Street Bridge in Milford last January, along with Milford Mayor Sean Strub and Pike County Commissioners Ronald Schmalzle and Steve Guccini (Photo by Frances Ruth Harris) State agency bungles ballot referendum for child sex victims (AP) A proposed Pennsylvania state constitutional amendment allowing lawsuits for otherwise outdated child sexual abuse claims... Police & Fire 03 Feb 2021 | 01:37
Judge rejects restaurants’ challenge of indoor dining ban (AP) A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected a bid to block one of Gov. Tom Wolf’s latest orders to try to stem the... Business 29 Dec 2020 | 01:09
Pennsylvania expands virus app to school-age phone users (AP) Pennsylvania’s two-month-old coronavirus exposure notification app can now be used by mobile phone users as young as... Local News 02 Dec 2020 | 02:40
High court allows 3-day extension for Pennsylvania ballots (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count mailed-in ballots received up to three days after the Nov. 3... Police & Fire 21 Oct 2020 | 12:06
Judges' seats in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's chambers in the Pennsylvania State Capitol (Ruhrfisch/Wikipedia/Creative Commons) Court’s decisions didn’t end Pennsylvania voting law fight (AP) The Nov. 3 presidential contest will test Pennsylvania’s ability to handle a massive mail-in vote and, while its high... Police & Fire 23 Sep 2020 | 12:15
House OKs changes to mail-in voting in near-party line vote Pennsylvania. (AP) In the shadow of an increasingly strident presidential campaign, Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives... Local News 09 Sep 2020 | 03:41