State high court rules against two third-party candidates Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Friday, September 13, sided with lower court decisions to block two third-party presidential... News 22 Sep 2024 | 07:36
Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says A court decided Thursday, September 5, that voters in the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania can cast provisional... News 14 Sep 2024 | 06:58
Pennsylvania to ban cell phone use while driving and require police to collect traffic stop data Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone for almost any purpose while... News 16 May 2024 | 03:10
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
