Pennsylvania has a new $27.7 billion state budget for the fiscal year that began Sunday. The Legislature finalized the budget Saturday night after a marathon day of deba...
PSU already faces 3 suits
STATE COLLEGE —Jerry Sandusky is convicted and behind bars, but the victims who testified against him — and potentially many more — could now tu...
PITTSBURGH — The Defense Department has told the Air Force to postpone a decision on whether to close an air base just outside Pittsburgh.
U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy said leg...
HARRISBURG — Most of Gov. Tom Corbett’s four-pronged education agenda for promoting alternatives to public schools and overhauling teacher evaluations remained on hold F...
Budget on time again for Corbett
HARRISBURG — A budget plan savaged by Democrats as taking from the poor to give to the rich but defended by Republicans as appropriate an...
HARRISBURG — Penn State University President Rodney Erickson said Friday the tuition rates he proposes for the coming school year will be the lowest in decades.
Erickson...
Sandusky report was discussed
BELLEFONTE — Four e-mails from 2001 give a glimpse into how three Penn State administrators discussed responding to a report Jerry Sandusky ...
SCRANTON — Scranton’s mayor is slashing the pay of almost 400 workers to the federal minimum wage as the northeastern Pennsylvania city faces a standoff over its financi...
There would be no limit on tax break
HARRISBURG — Top state Republican lawmakers have reached an agreement on a package of tax breaks that Gov. Tom Corbett has sought in ...
GOP unveils $27.7B plan
HARRISBURG — Democrats Wednesday attacked a newly unveiled $27.7 billion state spending plan written by majority Republicans, calling it a gift to...
