Two million Pennsylvanians rely on SNAP benefits and Gov. Josh Shapiro said funds could be distributed as soon as Friday ...

Democratic leaders called the results a victory for judicial independence and a further repudiation of efforts by billionaire ...

Immigrant victims of domestic violence have long encountered hurdles when seeking help from police and courts.

RGGI aims to reduce climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by requiring the companies that own them to ...

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Schmidt, who oversees election administration, urged voters to make a plan to vote if they have not done so already.

Growing health care costs for Pennie consumers are at the center of the federal government shutdown, but negotiations are at ...

The cancellation of LFPA in March resulted in bipartisan pushback from lawmakers like Gov. Josh Shapiro, all four chairs of ...

Pennsylvania voters were out Tuesday to decide whether three state Supreme Court justices deserve another 10-year term, a ...

A native of upstate New York, Whitney previously covered statehouse politics in Indiana with a focus on health care and ...

Pennsylvanians will vote Tuesday on three members of their seven-member state Supreme Court in retention elections.

Alexis Miller first encountered Jim and Janet Bowers when she commissioned their bakery in Shamokin, to make her wedding cake. “We didn’t have a lot of money or time,” Miller said. Miller, who was 24 ...