6% 'user fee' would be added to cost
HARRISBURG — A plan to extend Pennsylvania's sales tax to the performing arts, museums, historical sites, zoos and parks is partly de...
Economic woes casting shadow
PITTSBURGH — Bolstering a wobbly global economy, restraining greedy bankers and plotting a future course for sustainable growth — the leaders...
Summit brings almost 2 dozen to city at once
PITTSBURGH — The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Niki...
Many bills need passed
HARRISBURG — The wheels of budget-making ground slowly Monday, as legislative staff aides worked to write more than a dozen bills that reflect a th...
PHILADELPHIA — A former U.S. congressman from suburban Philadelphia has announced he's running for Pennsylvania governor next year.
Democrat Joe Hoeffel currently is a M...
NORTH VERSAILLES — An elderly woman is dead after police shot and killed her outside of her ex-boyfriend's house where she was dressed in black and holding a pistol.
Nor...
Author calls city an 'overachiever'
PITTSBURGH — World leaders coming to Pittsburgh next week for a global economic summit may have a limited view of the city: They'll be...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell and legislative leaders reached a budget deal Friday to end Pennsylvania's distinction as the last state still fighting over its annual spen...
A federal judge has ruled that two ordinances passed by a Western Pennsylvania township to prohibit mining were invalid.
Penn Ridge Coal and Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal su...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell dramatically changed his stance Thursday toward a bid by top state legislators to end a 2Z\x-month budget impasse, opening the door to an ag...
