In a welcome move Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its first guidelines for doctors dispensing powerful opioid painkillers. The prescrip...
When Pennsylvanians began paying a higher state gasoline tax and higher fees for vehicle registration, there was some grumbling. But most people accepted the higher cost...
What happened in a congressional committee on Monday has been called a “stunning admission”; a “watershed moment”; and a “milestone.”
The moment between Jeff Miller, the...
The board of directors of the Wounded Warrior Project did the right thing last week in firing the nonprofit group’s two top executives after news reports revealed extrav...
The occupants of the fifth floor of the Butler County Government Center might look to Beaver County leaders for ideas or inspiration on cost savings.
Actions by Butler C...
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The publication of a University of Pittsburgh study showing fatal drug overdoses skyrocketing in Pennsylvania between 1979 and 2014 might no...
Senseless violence ripped through a Pittsburgh-area community late Wednesday night, ending the lives of four women and a man for no other reason than they chose to atten...
Last month, a Franklin and Marshall College poll found deep discontent among Pennsylvania voters regarding the state and trajectory of the commonwealth. As we’ve said be...
When Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders faced off Sunday in a debate in Flint, Mich., the lead poisoning of Flint’s drinking water ...
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has spent more than a year sounding alarm bells over the state of municipal pension plans in this state — and it’s past ti...