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HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania’s politically divided Legislature will miss Pennsylvania’s legal deadline to pass a budget for the new fiscal year, amid c...
June 30, 2025 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia jury on Wednesday convicted a suburban man for killing a Temple University police officer who had chased him down as a suspect in a series o...
June 26, 2025 Pennsylvania News
CHICAGO — Three dozen police captains pair off in a Chicago conference room to play a game: They must start a sentence with the last word their partner used. Many exchang...
June 26, 2025 National News
Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 reactor is now set to open a year ahead of schedule. At a Wednesday rally, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, energy officials, and tech executive...
June 25, 2025 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — President Donald Trump will control the so-called “golden share” that's part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan-based Nippon Ste...
June 25, 2025 National News
Before Corey’s Cruise begins on July 12 in Buffalo Township, Saxonburg will host its own parade and ceremony in remembrance of Corey Comperatore, who died during the assa...
June 24, 2025 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — A number of top Pennsylvania Republicans — from county party chairs, to state lawmakers, to a top GOP donor — are encouraging Treasurer Stacy Garrity to run ...
June 23, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Two political leaders issued statements in support of President Donald Trump after he followed through on his threats for the U.S. military to carry out airstrikes on Ira...
June 23, 2025 International News
President Donald Trump campaigned against what he called the “Green New Scam” — a catchall for Democrats’ climate spending. But as Congressional Republicans race to pass...
June 19, 2025 Business
HARRISBURG — Facing a budget shortfall of nearly $5.5 billion, Pennsylvania won’t make its June 30 deadline for passing a new state budget, a top Republican said Wednesda...
June 19, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Kraft Heinz will be pulling artificial dyes from its U.S. products starting in 2027 and will no longer roll out new products with the dyes. The move comes nearly two mont...
June 17, 2025 Pennsylvania News
GARDNERS — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to t...
June 17, 2025 National News
CALGARY, Alberta — President Donald Trump would have unique influence over the operations of U.S. Steel under the terms of what the White House calls an “investment” bein...
June 16, 2025 Business
HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro and state lawmakers are getting down to crunch time, with big questions still outstanding about how to balance the Democrat’s spending requ...
June 16, 2025 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — Job No. 1 for Republicans in Pennsylvania is to scrounge up a candidate to contest next year's reelection bid by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro — if only to ru...
June 13, 2025 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — Former Republican Ryan Crosswell, who resigned his post as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in February in a break with the Trump administ...
June 11, 2025 Pennsylvania News
The Western Pennsylvania Sheep and Wool Grower’s Association will be holding their annual Shepherd’s Night program at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12 at the Penn State Merce...
June 10, 2025 Agriculture
HARRISBURG Proposals that would let survivors of childhood sexual abuse file lawsuits in Pennsylvania beyond the state's current statute of limitations passed the state H...
June 10, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Pennsylvania’s senior citizens and residents with disabilities have a few extra months to claim rebates on their 2024 rent and property taxes. The deadline has been exten...
June 10, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Across Butler County, schools are letting out for the summer, but plans for fun in the sun are being put on hold by Mother Nature. Between Thursday and Monday, June 5-9, ...
June 09, 2025 Local News
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amazon said Monday that it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power p...
June 09, 2025 Pennsylvania News
MILLVALE — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades' worth of soot, salt and other deterioration? Slowly and carefully, using everything from...
June 07, 2025 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican appeal and left in place a Pennsylvania court decision allowing people to cast provisional ballots when their mai...
June 06, 2025 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — A Democratic-sponsored proposal to limit per-student payments to Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools and make other changes to how they operate narrowly pas...
June 06, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Dozens of Philadelphia workers from the Department of Veterans Affairs gathered Thursday under an unyielding sun chanting: “Save our jobs, save our vets.” Come lunchtime,...
June 05, 2025 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — ICE agents have arrested nearly 20 immigrants in Norristown, Pa., during the last two weeks, according to advocates who described an aggressive and ongoing...
June 05, 2025 Pennsylvania News
The Trump administration must restore hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states, a federal ju...
June 05, 2025 National News
PHILADELPHIA — A fast-moving fire erupted early Thursday at a transit bus lot in Philadelphia filled with dozens of decommissioned vehicles, sending a thick plume of blac...
June 05, 2025 Pennsylvania News
One of Grove City’s and Mercer County’s summer traditions returns this weekend with the 34th annual Strawberry Days festival Friday through Sunday, June 6 to 8, at Grove ...
June 05, 2025 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, saying the agency, under President Donald Trump, had illegally cut off funding to it throu...
June 04, 2025 Pennsylvania News
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