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The Shapiro administration pointed to Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp as options for closure in his $51.4 billion state budget proposal. Gov...

The Governor projects that legalizing recreational cannabis could bring in $1.3 billion in the first five years. Governor Josh Shapiro unveiled a proposal to...

Replacement of the glitchy system is months behind schedule. Over a year ago, the Pennsylvania Department of State canceled a contract to upgrade the state’s...

At Wednesday’s hearing, Wright addressed Pennsylvania’s rich resources and its power to boost the nation’s economy. Wright is the CEO of Colorado-based Liberty...

Republican Jeremy Shaffer will be sworn in to represent House District 28, while Democrat John Inglis will be representing House District 38. Shaffer is a...

John Fetterman, the former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania’s Junior United States Senator, has ruffled the feathers of some Democrat...

Two weeks after the 2024 election, an official recount for the contested Pennsylvania Senate seat has started. Republican challenger David McCormick is roughly...

Senator Bob Casey held his seat in the United States Senate for Pennsylvania since 2007 until challenger Dave McCormick unseated him this election cycle. In...

Senate Republicans held the Pennsylvania State Senate with a margin of 28 to 22 after this election. On Wednesday, the Senate elected its leadership for the...

The results of Pennsylvania’s election gave Democrats a narrow 102-101 majority in the State House of Representatives. On Tuesday, elected members participated...

Whether approaching the ballot for the first time or returning as an experienced voter, understanding where to cast a vote, what identification to bring, and...

A report from Congress’ Joint Economic Committee is shedding light on the impact inflation has had on Americans’ energy costs. According to the report...

Investigations into a raft of fraudulent voter registrations in multiple Pennsylvania counties are pointing to an Arizona-based firm with links to a number of...

Pennsylvania’s early voting system faced significant stress as the number of those attempting to vote before Election Day overwhelmed board of elections...

Lancaster County officials on Friday announced that fraudulent voter registration forms were found in a batch of nearly 2,500 that were turned into the...

Last week, Senator Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick met for the second time on the debate stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The debate...

For decades, coal mining was the lifeblood of Pennsylvania’s economy, fueling the commercial and industrial engines of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Even as...

On Election Day, you might see various people working at your polling place. Poll watchers and poll workers are both essential to smooth sailing at the polls...

School districts across the state of Pennsylvania are suffering from a critical shortage of public school teachers.  It has been difficult for districts to...

Among a handful of swing states, Pennsylvania stands out as the top prize with its 19 electoral votes. Every voting bloc and slice of the state’s population is...

On Friday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that all mail-in ballots must be properly dated to be counted in elections. The 4-3 ruling threw out the...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump visited the National Constitution Center near Center City on Tuesday night for the first debate...

In her first–and only–interview since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee after incumbent President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Vice President...

Doctors at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI) use Vot-ER, a nonprofit founded in 2019 by a former White House fellow, to register their patients to...

Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate for the 2024 presidential election. Within hours of his...

Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher, was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment on January 26,  2011. She had approximately twenty stab...

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Interest Law Center have taken a state law requiring voters using mail-in ballots to write in the...

The Freedom Foundation watchdog group filed three complaints with state and federal authorities, including the FBI and IRS, which outline a scheme in which the...

During a CNN town hall, then-Senator and Presidential candidate Kamala Harris said, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking”. Fracking, the...

California lawmakers made national headlines in recent weeks as they put into place a law banning school district parental notification policies. Pennsylvania...

Pennsylvania launched a new license plate design commemorating America’s 250th birthday, set to roll out in honor of the nation’s upcoming...

Senate Bill 739, sponsored by Senator Vogel, has passed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate. The bill does not allow insurers to deny...

Independent presidential candidate, Robert Kennedy Jr., filed paperwork this past Thursday, June 20, to be placed on the Pennsylvania ballot for this coming...

Additionally, two bipartisan bills passed, one to tie aid for the University of Pittsburgh to performance-based metrics and another would establish a task...

In the U.S. presidential election featuring the two oldest candidates in U.S. history, the role of voters born seven to eight decades after the two major-party...

Lithium is used in the development of common technological devices, including the batteries in smartphones and laptops and has been listed as a critical...

A 2022 report by Feeding America charts Pennsylvania’s food insecurity rate at 11.9% and in southwest Pennsylvania, children experienced the highest increase...

The Pennsylvania healthcare system is currently facing a staffing crisis. Recent analysis shows that hospitals have staff vacancy rates of more than 10% in...

The names of the newest members of the Punxsutawney groundhog family have finally been unveiled after Phil did not see his shadow in February. Punxsutawney...

Pennsylvania is moving toward stricter cell phone regulation in classrooms and legislation has been introduced to empower school districts to restrict or ban...

Incumbent President Joe Biden overwhelmingly won Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary election last week, but an abnormally large number of write-in votes were...

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a three-term Democrat, is under fire from law enforcement after accepting the endorsement of Indivisible Philadelphia, a...