Keystone Crossroads Archive

Numbers from the state Department of Corrections provide context for the breadth of the problem across Pennsylvania. Figures for the most recent year were released in February

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has pinpointed 20 locations with high PFAS levels in water sources. They include areas of Bucks and Montgomery counties.

The issue is expected to come up during education department budget hearings.

Republican leaders want to charge municipalities for state police service based on workload indicators like calls for service instead of the governor’s proposed population-dri

The unprecedented security measures at the center of this trial involved giving inmates photocopies of their mail, while the prison temporarily stored the originals.

Enrollment across the 14 state-owned schools has decreased by 18 percent since 2010, dropping to less than 100,000 students in fall 2018.

A tax-break program that routes millions to Pennsylvania private schools could grow much larger if a new bill becomes law.

The U.S. Supreme Court placed limits on the civil asset forfeiture, but Pennsylvania’s high court already reined in the program throughout the state.

A federal trial is underway on whether Pennsylvania's policy for handling legal mail sent to prisons violates inmates' First Amendment rights.

Critics call the law redundant, “excessively broad,” and potentially unconstitutional.

A Schuylkill County judge says she needs more information from the Tamaqua Area Education Association before ruling on a policy that would allow some staff to carry firearms.

The video game tax would pay for bulletproof glass and metal detectors at schools, but researchers say the proposal is misguided.

Draw the Lines PA is a civic group that plans to host a biannual competition where people can make their own congressional district maps.

Pennsylvania has 500 school districts — nearly every one with its own full-time superintendent, hired by locally elected school board members.

A proposal backed by a powerful Republican would steer families to district-run cyber programs and away from cyber charter schools.