State’s 2024 primary election features contests for attorney general and Congress Pennsylvania’s 2024 primary election may lack drama in the high-stakes races for president and U.S. Senate, but the fields... News 28 Feb 2024 | 05:02
Gov. Josh Shapiro. ( Photo courtesy the Office of Governor Shapiro) Governor seeks billions for schools and development in budget that envisions legal weed Gov. Josh Shapiro ’s second budget proposes significant increases to education and economic development and would regulate... News 09 Feb 2024 | 10:28
Governor Josh Shapiro. Governor eyes overhaul of Pennsylvania higher ed system that’s among the worst in affordability Gov. Josh Shapiro plans next month to propose an overhaul of a higher education system in Pennsylvania that is among the... News 02 Feb 2024 | 01:59
Pennsylvania automatic voter registration boosts sign-ups, but not a political party, data shows New data from automatic voter registration at Pennsylvania driver’s license centers shows that sign-ups have grown, remain... News 02 Feb 2024 | 01:51
A Pennsylvania study suggests links between fracking and asthma, lymphoma in children Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare... Local News 16 Aug 2023 | 05:50
States restrict ‘tranq,’ animal sedative linked to overdoses States are increasingly looking to restrict access to an animal tranquilizer showing up in supplies of illicit drugs and... Local News 26 Apr 2023 | 05:17
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
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