Keystone Crossroads Archive

This wasn’t just any governance shake up. It was a bet that state government could and should help fix struggling school districts.

Voters in the northern end feel weirdly separated from their anchor cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.

Like many places in Pennsylvania and across the country, Lycoming County has been stung by the opioid epidemic. A watershed moment came over the summer.

A widely shared article used Johnstown, Pennsylvania as a lens to showcase the loyalty of President Trump’s supporters. But local residents are balking at the portrait.

The much-debated School Reform Commission will likely be replaced by a nine-member school board appointed by Philadelphia's mayor.

Supporters of the Keystone Exams are grappling with the prospect that mandated statewide graduation standards are not to be.

Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional district, which has an eye-popping shape that spans five counties, has been described in terms of a Disney cartoon: Goofy kicking Donald Duck.

With drastic changes to Pennsylvania's political landscape hanging in the balance, two lawsuits challenging the state's congressional map are moving forward at rapid speed.

We discuss how Pennsylvania's congressional districts came to look like a Rorschach test, the effect on elections and policy and the impact on the citizenry.

This story is the first in our "Over the Line" series on gerrymandering, a Keystone Crossroads collaboration with PennLive, WITF and other Pennsylvania public media stations.

A state-level challenge to how congressional districts were drawn by Republicans six years ago will proceed on a compressed schedule, a closely divided Pennsylvania Supreme Co

“It’s a typical hatchet job,” Marino said of the reports.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski won a fourth term in Tuesday’s election despite a 54-count federal indictment hanging over his head.

The conservative York County Republican has named a running mate — real estate developer and political outsider Jeff Bartos.

Four-time candidate Joe Vodvarka says he's running as a Republican, after losing three straight primaries as a Democrat.