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Firefighters battled a blaze that started in the vacant portion of an East Germantown duplex and quickly spread to the other half. ...

A deal to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery may have hit a snag, but contracts with the two private firms advising the commonwealth on t ...

Justice Vince Sicari is balancing two lives. He’s a municipal judge in New Jersey; he’s also comedian Vince August who warms ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has offered a $32.9 billion state budget aimed at helping the state recover from the destructive force of ...

The New Jersey legislature has cleared the way for legal of online gambling within state borders. But will it bring the economic benefits ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, budget-cruncher Erskine Bowles likes to present his ideas as numbered line items. As in, in the case of th ...

I’ve been reporting long enough to remember when I had to call the city personnel office to get a public official’s salary, a ...

In his address before the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Mayor Michael Nutter offered a bit of a preview of his budget addr ...

Sequestration is either a legitimate worry or no big deal. That’s the summation of the divergent views of Pennsylvania’s two ...

The Supreme Court will soon decide what one justice called its most important criminal procedure case in decades: whether to allow police ...