HARRISBURG — State prosecutors are asking for a 12- to 17-year prison sentence for Mike Veon, the former state House Democratic whip convicted of using public resources ...
Pa. official says don't cut corners
HARRISBURG — Serious consequences await the state's rapidly growing natural gas industry if companies are caught cutting corners of sa...
State system changes take effect in fall
PHILADELPHIA — The state university system will suspend, discontinue or merge dozens of degree programs that are under-enrolled a...
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve significant changes to the state's two large public-sector pension plans...
Debate shows lack of unity
HARRISBURG — Democrats abruptly yanked a bill to tax natural gas extraction and tobacco products from the Pennsylvania House floor Tuesday afte...
Bill takes aim at rising costs
HARRISBURG — The House on Tuesday voted for new rules for Pennsylvania's two large government pension plans that would reduce the size of a...
New 5-year deal done in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH — Call it collaborative bargaining.
When the Pittsburgh Public Schools and its teachers' union began talks last year for a n...
HARRISBURG — State officials lifted part of their stop-work order on the company that had a blowout at one of its wells earlier this month.
A state Department of Environ...
Districts in state face huge payments
EASTON — Despite a lot of talk across Pennsylvania about a looming pension crisis, with school districts saying the rate hikes they ...
PITTSBURGH— Leaders of Pennsylvania's state-owned universities are proposing that students be able to enroll in collaborative degree programs that would combine courses ...
